Am Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:20:48 -0600 schrieb [email protected]: > >>>> The default stark white background of the message window > >>>> is hard on my eyes (exacerbated by a cataract in one eye from an old > >>>> injury).
I have a lot of sympathy for people with such problems. My own eyes are not the best, and I also don't like websites with huge areas of just bright white. > >>>> Nothing I found on the Internet has given me a clue about how to ad- > >>>> just main-window colors, and so far nobody on the claws-mail forum has > >>>> offered an answer to my query. After some searching and trying around I found a solution. First I even tried to install "clawsker" on MacOS (and failed), but the good news is: clawsker only modifies text colors anyways. I tried that on my Ubuntu laptop computer, while the iMac was running on Mac OS. In Ubuntu installing clawsker is a snap, just an "aptitude install clawsker". Modifying the Gnome desktop theme, which immediately affects claws-mail as well, can also simply be done via the standard Gnome dialogs. There are nice dialogs for changing to completely different themes, and for just modifying individual colors. I could not figure out how to transfer these settings to Mac OS, though. The only file that got modified apparently was "~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/interface/%gconf.xml", but maybe only the Gnome desktop environment reads that. The working solution I found somehow, with the help of Rubénerd's website[1], goes like this: # wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gtk2-engines-xfce/gtk2-engines-xfce_2.6.0.orig.tar.gz # tar xzf gtk2-engines-xfce_2.6.0.orig.tar.gz gtk-xfce-engine-2.6.0/themes/dusk/gtk-2.0 # echo 'include "gtk-xfce-engine-2.6.0/themes/dusk/gtk-2.0"' >> .gtkrc-2.0 (If you read this in claws-mail and your window is wide enough the three long lines above should not be broken *g*) If you execute these three commands in your home directory, an archive with several gtk themes will be downloaded, gtk-xfce-engine-2.6.0/themes/dusk/gtk-2.0 will be extracted, and this file will be included from your .gtkrc-2.0 file (which will be created by the "echo" command, if it did not exist yet. The "dusk" theme we just extracted is really dark, and you'll have to change some font colors for quoted text to brighter colors to keep it readable, at least. This can be done from claws-mail. You can also modify the theme's colors individually, of course, by editing the gtk-2.0 file from the archive. Maybe then starting with a lighter theme (e.g. "dawn" instead of "dusk") would be better. I did not find out where the values are documented, but I found the variable for the claws-mail message background by taking a screen-shot (CMD+Shift+3), opening that in Gimp, and picking the relevant part's color ("121212" in "dusk"). The variable is "base[NORMAL]". I might stick to a dark theme for some time, now... Good luck getting the colors you want! Vlado [1] http://rubenerd.com/p3964/ -- Vlado Plaga __o http://vlado-do.de _o/\<,_ update: 2010-07-03 (U)/ (u) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
