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This is what I had to understand before I could get my desired black background and white text; posted here to hopefully help any other newbies (and me when my hd crashes and I have to reinstall OS & can't remember wow to setup) Customizing LXDE is not as simple as selecting one theme. As simply...

Still not solved. I figured out the drop down menu problem by editing a few items in gtk-3.0/gtk.css but still getting white backgrounds on things like Manjaro Settings and Gedit header is light and unreadable. I need terminal black background for an old all-in-one unit with a touchscreen overlay th...

Sorry for the levity, sometimes I have to laugh about computers or I'll cry Turns out all I really needed was to add /usr/share/themes/Crux/gtk-3.0/gtk.css with: @define-color bg_color #000; @define-color fg_color #ddd; @define-color base_color #222; @define-color text_color #fff; I had tried other ...

drooly wrote:

skimmy wrote:Quite simply, windows with dark backgrounds & light text

this is definitely possible.

In this world nothing can be said to be definite, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin

Installed LDXE on Manjaro/Arch. The dark themes there create a dark background for some windows but just like on Lubuntu with custom colors many windows are still light so presents an odd half dark, half light desktop environment. https://photos.app.goo.gl/M8SWUUia9jdZDRIx1 The problem has nothing t...

~/.gtkrc-2.0 data same as .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

Crux is selected for Widget theme and Mikachu is selected for lxappearance Window Border Theme and openbox theme since they looked best with custom selected dark colors.

When I uncheck Use customized color scheme and click Apply, backgrounds remain light, customized colors are lost I don't see anything that might override a theme. I've tried every setting skimmy@acer:~$ cd ~/.gtkrc-2.0 bash: cd: /home/skimmy/.gtkrc-2.0: Not a directory skimmy@acer:~$ cd ~/.gtkrc-2.0...

Quite simply, windows with dark backgrounds & light text Did you see my screenshot from 1st post? It says not downloaded yet next to link. Here it is on google photos https://photos.app.goo.gl/d7AqDKmRr88hxBRh2 lxappearance-obconf and lxsession were installed by Lubuntu; running lxsession gave m...

All the themes I select with Openbox Configuration Manager leave the background light; same as selecting a theme with LXAppearance - Window Border - Theme. The dark backgrounds in my attached screenshot were achieved with LXAppearace - Color - use customized color scheme; but this did not affect the...

Striving for all dark theme, can't get what seems to be openbox configured windows dark