How do I change the colors of lxappearance?

Xalegn · September 17, 2021, 1:02am

Sorry, i’m still new to i3 but how would I change the colors of the arc-dark theme? When I go to color it says setting color scheme is not available without lxsession as session manager?

I’m just trying to make the blue in arc-dark purple to match the rest of the os.

joekamprad · September 17, 2021, 1:22am

as it says … lxappearance is from lxde tools only added to i3 for easy theme change.
you could try this from AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arc-gtk-theme-colorpack/

You could also copy the theme under users dir ~/.themes/arc-gtk-purple/ and change colorcode.
or … create a patched package:

github.com

endeavouros-team/PKGBUILDS/blob/master/arc-gtk-theme-eos/PKGBUILD

#!/bin/bash

# Maintainer: EndeavourOS-Team <info@endeavouros.com>

# Latest arc-gtk-theme release with a color patch to foreground text.

_prepare_arc-gtk-theme-eos() {

    # VERSION: 1.1             # change this number when this file is modified!

    local _pkgname_orig=arc-gtk-theme
    local _empty_prepare=no
    local _url_orig=https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/raw/packages/$_pkgname_orig/trunk/PKGBUILD

    ################## Fetch and source the upstream PKGBUILD:
    curl -Lsm 10 -o PKGBUILD.orig $_url_orig || exit 1

    if [ 1 -eq 1 ] ; then     # TODO !!
        _empty_prepare=yes
    else

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Xalegn · September 17, 2021, 4:44am

Sorry, for that second custom build how would I compile that? Would I just need to make a .sh file then run it?

joekamprad · September 19, 2021, 6:54pm

makepkg would be the tool to build a package . but you can simply download the theme and place a modified copy under your users home ~/.themes/

https://github.com/jnsh/arc-theme/archive/refs/tags/20210412.tar.gz

BONK · September 19, 2021, 7:27pm

So that’s why that is there.