Re: Set colour of title bar for active window?

[Walter D. <wal...@wa...>]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 05:20:13PM +0100, Walter Hurry wrote
> I started using IceWM a couple of days ago and am very impressed
> with it. Many thanks to those concerned for an excellent application!
> 
> I have almost got it set up the way I want it, but a few minor issues
> remain. Here's the first:
> 
> The theme is Nitrogen, downloaded from box-look.org and the gtk theme
> is oxygen-gtk. How do I set the colour of the active window title
> bar? At the moment it's a rather dull grey, and indistinguishable
> from inactive windows.

  Preliminary setup: In the file ~/.icewm/theme you need to have two
themes available with one of them being commented out.  I'll explain
later.  In my case, the file containes the two lines...

Theme="mytheme/my.theme"
#Theme="icedesert/default.theme"

  Your themes will probably be different.

  I just did a bit of testing, and it can get non-intuitive, to say the
least.  Question... do you have files titleAB.xpm and titleAT.xpm in
the theme directory?  If so, then they can't be overridden.  You have 2
options.

a) The first is to rename or delete those 2 files.  Then you can enter
lines in ~/.icewm/preferences or in ~/.icewm/prefoverride like so...

ColorActiveTitleBar="rgb:00/00/A0"
ColorActiveTitleBarText="rgb:FF/FF/FF"

b) The second option is to edit those files *WITH A TEXT EDITOR* (YES).
XPM files are text files.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap#XPM3
for details.  In my case, the file titleAB.xpm consists of...

/* XPM */
static char * titleAB_xpm[] = {
"1 20 2 1",
"   c None",
".  c #0000A0",
".",
".",
".",
".",
".",
".",
".",
".",
".",
".",
".",
".",
".",
".",
".",
".",
".",
".",
".",
"."};

  Replace #0000A0 with your desired colour, and activate the modified
theme.  This is another pain.  When you restart ICEWM, it does not
re-read the theme data, *UNLESS THE NAME OF THE THEME HAS CHANGED*.  So
to activate the modified theme I have to...

* edit my theme (preferences or xpm files)

* change ~/.icewm/theme to read
#Theme="mytheme/my.theme"
Theme="icedesert/default.theme"

* restart ICEWM ( killall -HUP /usr/bin/icewm )

* change ~/.icewm/theme to read
Theme="mytheme/my.theme"
#Theme="icedesert/default.theme"

* restart ICEWM ( killall -HUP /usr/bin/icewm )

  I suppose that exiting X and restarting it would also work, but that's
rather heavy-handed.

-- 
Walter Dnes <wal...@wa...>