How to change indicator box color on the Rox item?(SOLVED)

[gychang]

Attached is the roxfiler on XenialPup. I have modified the background color on the Rox since I prefer this to the default. As the photo shows around the my-pictures box, there is a rectangular box that indicate the active item (using arrow keys). How do I change this faint gray color to more noticeable color perhaps yellow or white?

[one]

Hi @gychang,

look here for "rox-focus-rectangle", published by @HerrBert, which may do what you want:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 818#p65818

peace

[MochiMoppel]

. I have modified the background color on the Rox since I prefer this to the default.

Affecting only ROX-Filer windows? How did you do that?

How do I change this faint gray color to more noticeable color perhaps yellow or white?

AFAIK you can't.[Edit]Sorry, thought you were using list view. Turns out that it's indeed possible also in list view (see linked post by HerrBert)

[mikewalsh]

Mm. Now I'm curious as well.

I mean, yes; I DO have a dark background to my ROX-filer windows.....but then I have the same colour in most app windows, too. Because I'm using a dark GTK2 theme.....which explains it.

But I wasn't aware you could modify individual items like this in ROX..?

Mike.

[gychang]

Hi @gychang,

look here for "rox-focus-rectangle", published by @HerrBert, which may do what you want:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 818#p65818

peace

thanks!,solved.

[gychang]

. I have modified the background color on the Rox since I prefer this to the default.

Affecting only ROX-Filer windows? How did you do that?

hi: @MochiMoppel
1. to change the background rox color: I added include "/root/.gtkrc-2.0.mine" to .gtkrc-2.0 file.
2. my .gtkrc-2.0.mine: has
pixmap_path "/usr/local/lib/X11/pixmaps"
style "rox" = "default"
{
bg_pixmap [ NORMAL ] = "roxbg.png"
}
widget_class "*Collection*" style "rox"
3. create roxbg.png in GIMP, size of the monitor and color of choice and by using the paint can with gradient, and saved to my /root/

I copied this from somewhere (?old puppyforum) and seems to work for me.

[MochiMoppel]

I copied this from somewhere (?old puppyforum) and seems to work for me.

Thanks!
I may have found the source: Theming the background of filer windows

[step]

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widget_class "*Collection*" style "rox"

For Fatdog64 users (and users of a rox build derived from the same sources), that line could also be replaced by

Code: Select all

widget "rox-filer.*.Collection" style "rox"

to ensure that the style can't spread to other applications that use the Collection widget.

[MochiMoppel]

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to ensure that the style can't spread to other applications that use the Collection widget.

Which implies that it could spread. That was one of my questions to @gychang but after checking some of Puppy's standard applications I still haven't found one that is affected. Pretty much confined to ROX-Filer. Unfortunately not usable for me as it only works in Icons View, a view that I never use.