Re: Set colour of title bar for active window?

[Walter H. <wal...@gm...>]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:12:47 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the replies, Walter and Adam. With your help I have got almost 
there. I had to edit:

titleAB.xpm
titleAL.xpm
titleAM.xpm
titleAP.xpm
titleAR.xpm
titleAS.xpm
titleAT.xpm

in ~/icewm/themes/Nitrogen.

The only problem remaining is that I can't see a way to change the 
background of the buttons on the active window without changing the 
background of the buttons on inactive windows. I've tried creating a 
titleAJ.xpm and a titleAQ.xpm, but they seem to have no effect. Any 
thoughts?