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  Claws mail bacground yossarian <nomail@gmail.com> - 2022-11-09 10:18 +0100
    Re: Claws mail bacground Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2022-11-09 10:28 +0100
      Re: Claws mail bacground nomail@gmail.com - 2022-11-09 11:41 +0100
        Re: Claws mail bacground Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2022-11-09 12:40 +0100
          Re: Claws mail bacground yossarian <nomail@gmail.com> - 2022-11-09 15:50 +0100
            Re: Claws mail bacground Big Al <Bears@invalid.com> - 2022-11-09 10:56 -0500
    Re: Claws mail bacground Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2022-11-09 04:01 -0600
      Re: Claws mail bacground nomail@gmail.com - 2022-11-09 11:41 +0100
    Re: Claws mail bacground Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2022-11-09 16:14 -0600
    Re: Claws mail bacground Kirk_Rockstein <Kirk_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2022-11-11 18:25 +0000
      Re: Claws mail bacground yossarian <nomail@gmail.com> - 2022-11-12 08:58 +0100

#39401 — Claws mail bacground

Anybody knows how to change Claws mail 4 background? It is too white. I prefer something duller.   I don't know why there is no midground between dark and light themes. My old eyes will prefer something like a white coffee color for all backgrounds.

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#39402

Am 09.11.2022 um 10:18:56 Uhr schrieb yossarian:

> Anybody knows how to change Claws mail 4 background? It is too white.
> I prefer something duller.   I don't know why there is no midground
> between dark and light themes. My old eyes will prefer something like
> a white coffee color for all backgrounds.

I assume this is controlled by GTK3. Maybe you can change the theme.

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#39404

On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 10:28:52 +0100
Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> wrote:

> Am 09.11.2022 um 10:18:56 Uhr schrieb yossarian:
> 
> > Anybody knows how to change Claws mail 4 background? It is too white.
> > I prefer something duller.   I don't know why there is no midground
> > between dark and light themes. My old eyes will prefer something like
> > a white coffee color for all backgrounds.  
> 
> I assume this is controlled by GTK3. Maybe you can change the theme.
> 
I assume, too, but dont know what to change?
In my usr/share/themes/Mint-Y-Dark-Teal/gtk-3.0/gtk.css there are so many (background) lines, and I won't touch that. 
Can you be a little more specific? Maybe a link to some page.
 

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#39406

Am 09.11.2022 um 11:41:39 Uhr schrieb nomail@gmail.com:

> Can you be a little more specific? Maybe a link to some page.

I haven't tested that:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/523510/how-to-change-the-colours-in-gtk3-themes

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#39407

On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 12:40:42 +0100
Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> wrote:

> Am 09.11.2022 um 11:41:39 Uhr schrieb nomail@gmail.com:
> 
> > Can you be a little more specific? Maybe a link to some page.  
> 
> I haven't tested that:
> 
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/523510/how-to-change-the-colours-in-gtk3-themes
> 
gtk-theme-config
This repository has been archived by the owner. It is now read-only.

Oomox is flatpak and is big no,no. 4.1 GB required. It does not change the background, only UI elements.

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#39408

On 11/9/22 09:50, this is what yossarian wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 12:40:42 +0100
> Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> wrote:
> 
>> Am 09.11.2022 um 11:41:39 Uhr schrieb nomail@gmail.com:
>>
>>> Can you be a little more specific? Maybe a link to some page.
>>
>> I haven't tested that:
>>
>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/523510/how-to-change-the-colours-in-gtk3-themes
>>
> gtk-theme-config
> This repository has been archived by the owner. It is now read-only.
> 
> Oomox is flatpak and is big no,no. 4.1 GB required. It does not change the background, only UI elements.
> 
Also AWF.  It's in Mint 20.3 repository.  Cinnamon.
It will let you preview gtk3 or gtk2 themes.  Without restarting Cinnamon.
You can even pick system themes.

PS If you want to edit one of the system themes, copy it to  ~/.themes folder.  Make it if you don't have it.
The copy in your home directory overrides the system theme, so make changes there and they will show up.
	Al

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#39403

On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 10:18:56 +0100
yossarian <nomail@gmail.com> wrote:

> Anybody knows how to change Claws mail 4 background? It is too white.
> I prefer something duller.   I don't know why there is no midground
> between dark and light themes. My old eyes will prefer something like
> a white coffee color for all backgrounds.
> 

configuration/preferences/colors/other

You can change the background color there.

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#39405

On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 04:01:29 -0600
Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 10:18:56 +0100
> yossarian <nomail@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Anybody knows how to change Claws mail 4 background? It is too white.
> > I prefer something duller.   I don't know why there is no midground
> > between dark and light themes. My old eyes will prefer something like
> > a white coffee color for all backgrounds.
> >   
> 
> configuration/preferences/colors/other
> 
> You can change the background color there.
> 
Only for specific elements like quote, sifnature etc. :(

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#39409

On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 10:18:56 +0100
yossarian <nomail@gmail.com> wrote:

> Anybody knows how to change Claws mail 4 background? It is too white.
> I prefer something duller.   I don't know why there is no midground
> between dark and light themes. My old eyes will prefer something like
> a white coffee color for all backgrounds.
> 

I would think the message background color would be specified in
.claws-mail/clawsrc but I sure can't find it.

I posted the question to news.software.readers, maybe someone there
will come up with an answer.

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#39428

On 2022-11-09, yossarian <nomail@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anybody knows how to change Claws mail 4 background? 
> It is too white. I prefer something duller.   
> I don't know why there is no midground between dark and light themes. 
> My old eyes will prefer something like a white coffee color 
> for all backgrounds.
>

To change GTK theme/color for claws-mail alone 
this can be done by setting an environment variable in the 
command to run the application, 

GTK 2 applications
Uses the env variable "GTK2_RC_FILES". Start an application with
GTK2_RC_FILES=/path/to/theme/gtkrc <command>
GTK 3 applications
Uses the env variable "GTK_THEME". Start an application with
GTK_THEME=/path/to/theme/gtk.css <command>

Examples

GTK3:
$ GTK_THEME=/usr/share/themes/Mint-Y-Dark-Teal/gtk-3.0/gtk.css claws-mail

GTK2: 
$ GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Mint-Y-Dark-Teal/gtk-2.0/gtkrc claws-mail

create a script file in $HOME like so:

touch $HOME/claws-mail.sh

Make it executive:

chmod +x $HOME/claws-mail.sh 

Open $HOME/claws-mail.sh in a text editor of your choice (example):

adie $HOME/claws-mail.sh

Enter text as example below:

#!/bin/bash
GTK_THEME=/usr/share/themes/Mint-Y-Dark-Teal/gtk-3.0/gtk.css claws-mail

Save edit,
Then find the claws-mail.desktop file on your system and open it 
in a text editor then locate this line in the file:

Exec=claws-mail %u

Edit that line to:

Exec=/home/YOURUSER/claws-mail.sh %u

Save edit. Note that YOURUSER above would be your actual username.

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#39430

On 11 Nov 2022 18:25:35 GMT
Kirk_Rockstein <Kirk_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> wrote:

> On 2022-11-09, yossarian <nomail@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anybody knows how to change Claws mail 4 background? 
> > It is too white. I prefer something duller.   
> > I don't know why there is no midground between dark and light themes. 
> > My old eyes will prefer something like a white coffee color 
> > for all backgrounds.
> >  
> 
> To change GTK theme/color for claws-mail alone 
> this can be done by setting an environment variable in the 
> command to run the application, 
> 
> GTK 2 applications
> Uses the env variable "GTK2_RC_FILES". Start an application with
> GTK2_RC_FILES=/path/to/theme/gtkrc <command>
> GTK 3 applications
> Uses the env variable "GTK_THEME". Start an application with
> GTK_THEME=/path/to/theme/gtk.css <command>
> 
Thank you for your elaborated answer, but that does not help me in my problem. I already use 
Mint-Y-Dark Teal theme for my system. Only the white color is to bright for me.
Somehow, I managed to change the white color in gtk.css by changing all (255,255,255)(#ffffff)(white)
inputs to (248,245,245)(#f8f5f5).But the change made the result different than expected. It finishes with
(235,235,235) which I can't find in gtk.css. It must be that GTK changed something else in the system.
Will continue with dulling the theme a little bit more :))

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