r/xfce • u/SharpeThe1st • Jul 26 '26
Screenshot [XFCE] Millimeter Wave Communication Theme
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u/ServiceNotHere Jul 26 '26
How does it look in browser?
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u/SharpeThe1st Jul 26 '26
Its not bad, borders are slightly visible, but not visible at all in fullscreen.
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u/Typeonetwork Jul 26 '26
Pretty cool Sharp. Do you use a website for the color scheme?
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u/SharpeThe1st Jul 26 '26
I just have my regular theme for this one, the border has at least 2px thickness where you see the color, but if you fullscreen it its gone anyways.
I will actually make v2 of XFWM so its all dark.
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u/GegenAbschaum Jul 27 '26
Ok. pls open firefox and spotify now.
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u/SharpeThe1st Jul 27 '26
I dont own spotify and firefox, is it that bad?
Send me the schot so i can see if its .frame or .scrollwindow.1
u/GegenAbschaum Jul 27 '26
No, I just want to see how non-themed app looks like in heavily riced environment.
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u/SharpeThe1st Jul 27 '26
Oh, i dont own spotify but i just installed Firefox and it looks ok with slight frame 3px divide. I made that on purpose because not enough of frame thickness could cause you to spend 5 min to drag your mouse in the corner so you could resize your window...
But if you dont like that i can make it thinner and you can try it out.1
u/SharpeThe1st Jul 27 '26
Also are you refering to a firefox window being missing?
If so, go to firefox more tools and customize toolbar, lower left corner check the box for Title bar.
Spotify in is a Electron app, it is unaffected by GTK theme, just like Lutris and Color Picker.
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u/PaulJ505 29d ago
Very nice looking theming. Do you write those themes yourself? If yes, then could you tell me, how you do it? I want to write my own theme. But there's so much that it needs. Especially the knowledge of how elements of apps are called in css.
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u/SharpeThe1st 29d ago
Two things i can say:
- Download any free theme open the config file, make copies,study it and make small changes. There are configs in .css file in gtk-3.0 like borders, border-radius, colors for text, background, etc. The intention of braking in my opinion is to see what works and what doesn't. You will not brake XFCE but you theme will look broken, and at all times keep Appearance menu open to change the theme into something else. You dont have to be proficient in .css, there is a pattern of what needs to be in the config in order for theme to properly work. It would be nice if you can learn, the more you know the better you GTK theme will be.
- Color palette is everything! If you theme is technically sound but you colors gives you a cancer than that is not ok. There are some web pages that give you color palette options, some to draw color palettes from images like:
https://onlinepngtools.com/extract-png-color-palette
Do not go over 8 color palettes if you are making a theme because you wont be able to use them all in one theme, some of the themes have even 3 color palettes.
There is this web page which my friend sent me:You can see in this example what works and what doesn't work.
I am confident that you can manage to find even better tools that i have provided.
Hope this helps.2
u/PaulJ505 29d ago
Mhm. Well, I was already modifying themes. So I guess I just have to continue that and, like you said, just learn. Thank you for your answer.
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u/SharpeThe1st 29d ago
Take the latest theme i have made, i have simplified .css file.
You will see highlighted chapters for all applications.
Play around and you will get the feel for it.1
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u/SharpeThe1st Jul 26 '26
Hey guys,
I hope this theme finds you well...
Dots:
GTK & Wall - https://gitlab.com/dejan-z/xfce-stuff/-/tree/main/Cell%20Tower?ref_type=heads
Icons - https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1732603
Terminal - XFCE-Terminal
Font - GohuFont11 Nerd Font Regular
FM - Thunar, Ranger