I typically work full screen. However, sometimes I have windows next to each other. That is because I want to see the contents of different windows at the same time. Yet, most GTK3 themes slightly dim content of a non selected window. Is there an easy way to prevent a GTK3 theme from changing the appearance of window content when a window is not selected?
Changing the appearance of title bar or window borders between unselected and selected windows is desirable. What I find undesirable is a change in appearance of the window content.
In particular for me, it concerns the Greybird theme that comes with Xubuntu 19.10 (with the standard window manger of Xubuntu). This, however, also happens with for example Adwaita or Arc, and also happens under Gnome Shell. It apparently is a feature of GTK3 themes. I do not see this happening with mousepad (GTK2) or PCmanFM (GTK2).
For nautilus, there is what can be called a bug, where the background becomes gray for the not selected window if tabs are open, but stays white for the non selected window if no tabs are open:
On top a not selected nautilus window with multiple tabs, middle a nautilus window without tabs, bottom selected nautilus window without tabs.
The difference is more subtile in a GTK3 text editor such as Gedit:
Left: not selected window, right: selected window.
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