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light-themes package

  1. Bug #733233
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 733233

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Grey Nicholson (greytheearthling) wrote :

A suggestion to make dark window edges on dark backgrounds more distinct:

I use a borderless theme with a shadow colour of #808080ff (mid grey). #404040ff (darker grey) works well too.

This makes dark edges on dark backgrounds appear to have a light glow, while light edges on light backgrounds appear to have a dark shadow.

You can change this in gconf-editor: /apps/compiz/plugins/decoration/allscreens/options/shadow_color in 10.10; I think it's /apps/compiz/plugins/decor/screen_0/options/shadow_color in natty.

(I also use ADD Helper to dim inactive windows to 85% brightness, which is why Banshee is dim in the screenshot.)