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artfulrobot
Asked: 2014-05-10 23:48:23 +0800 CST

How to fix GTK theme for Nemo's pathbar breadcrumbs and disk free space barchart

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I like a few features of Nemo, but there seems to be a theme problem - at least when running under Ubuntu Gnome 14.04:

As you can see from this screenshot:

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it's not possible to see which of the breadcrumbs is selected, and the barchart for available space seems to be colouring both full and free the same colour!

In the screenshot I have the "global dark theme" on, but it's the same problem without this.

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  1. Best Answer

    I installed Nemo from the Mint packaged for Ubuntu archives. This updated it, made some more nemo-* packages available and fixed the breadcrumbs, but I was left with the useless disk space indicators. Here's how I fixed those:

    Create your own GTK+3 theme as follows

    First, duplicate the Adwaita theme with the name Adwaita-custom

    $ cd /usr/share/themes
$ sudo bash  # easier than prepending every line with sudo...
# cp -ar Adwaita Adwaita-custom
# cd Adwaita-custom
# sed -i 's/Adwaita/Adwaita-custom/' index.theme

    Now we add special CSS for Nemo

    # cd gtk-3.0
# echo '@import url("apps/nemo-custom.css");' >>gtk.css
# mkdir apps
# $EDITOR apps/nemo-custom.css*

    Now in that file, here's what I put:

    /* For Places Sidebar diskfull indicators */

NemoPlacesTreeView {
    -NemoPlacesTreeView-disk-full-bg-color: #d9d9d9;
    -NemoPlacesTreeView-disk-full-fg-color: #4a90d9 ;
    -NemoPlacesTreeView-disk-full-bar-width: 2px;
    -NemoPlacesTreeView-disk-full-bar-radius: 1px;
    -NemoPlacesTreeView-disk-full-bottom-padding: 1px;
    -NemoPlacesTreeView-disk-full-max-length: 70px;
}

NemoPlacesTreeView:selected {
    -NemoPlacesTreeView-disk-full-bg-color: #d9d9d9;
    -NemoPlacesTreeView-disk-full-fg-color: shade(#4a90d9,0.5) ;
}

    Save and exit your editor. You can now drop root privileges, too, and/or exit your terminal shell.

    Now select Adwaita-custom as the GTK+ theme in the tweak tool ("Advanced Settings") app.

    Here's mine now: screenshot

    PS. Big thanks to Roman Raguet for the comment which linked to the original nemo css.

    PPS. Oh, in my screenshot, you like my small titlebar eh? Yeah, nice. Here's how.

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