Thunar : remove background image

[sissou]

I’m using XFCE desktop and everything works flawlessly, except that I can’t remove background image in thunar :

How do you get rid of this ? I can’t find any option to do this ?!

[kwg]

Try the following…

Create this file if it doesn’t exist already:

~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

Then add this code to the file:

.thunar .view * {
	background-image: none;
}

Save your edits. Finally, log out and log back in. When you next open Thunar, the background image should be gone.

[sissou]

Thanks for your answer !

I had to add this to make it work :

.thunar .view * {
	background-image: none;
	background-color: #ffffff;
}

Without “background-color” the background image was still displayed.
Strange behaviour ?!

And now selected text is white on white background…

Do you know where these original settings are stored : perhaps it would be more effective to delete them ?

[vazicebon]

@sissou

Do you know where these original settings are stored : perhaps it would be more effective to delete them ?

Menu–>Settings–>Appearance, you can see the name of the theme, which should be installed in /usr/share/theme.

[kwg]

Try this code instead, replacing the code in my previous post:

.thunar .standard-view,
.thunar .standard-view * {
	background-image: none;
	background-color: #fff;
	color: #000;
}

If selected text is still white against a white background, add this code after the code above:

.thunar .standard-view *:selected {
	color: #000;
}

[sissou]

It’s OK with this.
I guess I have to tweak this a little to make it stick to Qogir GTK theme.

I checked in /usr/share/themes and Qogir does not provide this background image in thunar…

[kwg]

@sissou

Qogir does not provide this background image

The background image is in these locations:

/usr/share/themes/Qogir/gtk-3.0/assets/backimage.png [727×345]

/usr/share/themes/Qogir/gtk-3.0/assets/backimage@2.png [1455×691]

It’s referenced in this file:

/usr/share/themes/Qogir/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

For example,

window.thunar notebook scrolledwindow.frame.standard-view, 
nemo-window .nemo-window-pane notebook scrolledwindow.view,
.nautilus-window notebook > stack {
  background-image: -gtk-scaled(url("assets/backimage.png"), url("assets/backimage@2.png"));
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-position: bottom right;
}

[sissou]

That’s what I was looking for ! Thanks !

This css rule in gtk.css just don’t load any image in background :

window.thunar notebook scrolledwindow.frame.standard-view, nemo-window .nemo-window-pane notebook scrolledwindow.view, .nautilus-window notebook > stack {
    background-image: none;
}

Problem solved