I been messing with the css of the themes, but I don't know what I'm doing

[adry]

Hi, well I just want a pitch black theme and I've been changing some values but now when I right click on any icon or when I click in another window the icon of the file turns black and with the black background the icon disappears completely.


that really bothers me, is there any documentation of how those css works?

[spamegg]

You shouldn't do that. At least you should make a backup of those CSS files. I'm guessing you are referring to something like /usr/share/themes/Mint-Y/cinnamon/cinnamon.css

Generally speaking CSS is fairly complicated. If you don't already know some CSS yourself, you'd end up breaking a lot of things if you try to get the results you want by trial and error.

I'd suggest looking through the custom themes available in Themes/Add-remove. There are some darker themes there.

[newlyminted7]

I hacked away at a couple of themes recently and found that the majority of the success I had was from trial and error and looking through existing themes because I haven't been able to find a decent CSS reference or documentation page, either. Wasn't a very pleasant experience, but I eventually got the look I (mostly) wanted.

Not sure, but these might help you:
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/theming.html
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Proj ... FInspector
(from https://askubuntu.com/questions/68976/h ... nome-shell)
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/lin ... theme.html

[adry]

You shouldn't do that. At least you should make a backup of those CSS files. I'm guessing you are referring to something like /usr/share/themes/Mint-Y/cinnamon/cinnamon.css

Generally speaking CSS is fairly complicated. If you don't already know some CSS yourself, you'd end up breaking a lot of things if you try to get the results you want by trial and error.

I'd suggest looking through the custom themes available in Themes/Add-remove. There are some darker themes there.

I'm editing a copy of one of the default themes so the default is untouched, I know CSS but its hard to know what I'm editing just by the names and classes of the elements.
Yes I know that there are dark themes but the ones that look good form me doesn't change the controls or the windows(I mean I don't get any new windows/controls to choose when I download the themes ) and they only change the panel.

[adry]

I hacked away at a couple of themes recently and found that the majority of the success I had was from trial and error and looking through existing themes because I haven't been able to find a decent CSS reference or documentation page, either. Wasn't a very pleasant experience, but I eventually got the look I (mostly) wanted.

Not sure, but these might help you:
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/theming.html
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Proj ... FInspector
(from https://askubuntu.com/questions/68976/h ... nome-shell)
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/lin ... theme.html

Hey thanks!!! I will check those links.

[newlyminted7]

You're welcome. Good luck, some of those themes are huge and complex, but it can be done.

And, not sure if you're interested, but I wrote a small shell script to toggle between a dark theme and a light theme (for day and night). I have it set up as a button in my Panel (via the Command Launcher applet) which just calls the shell script to toggle the theme.

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#!/bin/bash

# Get current theme
theme=$(gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences theme)
#echo "Current theme is $theme"

if [ $theme = "'Mint-Y'" ]; then
        #echo "Setting evening theme..."

        # Window borders:
        gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences theme "Mint-Y-Dark"
        # Icons:
        gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme "Mint-Y-Dark-Aqua"
        # Controls:
        gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface gtk-theme "Arc-Dark"
        # Mouse pointer:
        #settings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface cursor-theme 'DMZ-Black'
        # Desktop:
        gsettings set org.cinnamon.theme name "Arc-Dark"

        # Wallpaper:
        gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.background picture-uri 'file:///usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint-ulyssa/echerkasski_countryside.jpg'
    else
        #echo "Setting daytime theme"

        # Window borders:
        gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences theme "Mint-Y"
        # Icons:
        gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme "Mint-Y-Aqua"
        # Controls:
        gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface gtk-theme "Mint-Y-Aqua"
        # Mouse pointer:
        #settings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface cursor-theme 'DMZ-Black'
        # Desktop:
        gsettings set org.cinnamon.theme name "Mint-X-Aqua"

        # Wallpaper:
        gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.background picture-uri 'file:///usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint-ulyana/aandrews_tree.jpg'
    fi