How to change background color in caja top bar?

[mate2go]

Hi!

How to change background color in caja top bar?

See screenshot (in the red field)

[lah7]

That would be part of the theme - in GTK, this is the menubar and toolbar.

You can make adjustments to the CSS in the Ambiant-MATE theme:

sudo pluma /usr/share/themes/Ambiant-MATE/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets.css

(Bearing in mind editing it there may get overwritten when the ubuntu-mate-artwork package is updated)

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See here on how to use the GTK inspector - this should help identify colours of the theme you may be wanting to change. This uses the toolbar background as an example:

Enabling the GTK Inspector - to find CSS values for theme styles

When developing or modifying a theme, the GTK Inspector is a useful utility to find out the CSS classes used by a particular theme. Applies to 18.04 and later. Inspection only works on GTK3 applications. Assumes basic knowledge of GTK themes. First, install development files for GTK3: sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev Set an environment variable for the terminal session: export GTK_DEBUG=interactive Tip: To inspect Caja, hidden windows and some a…

(Caja is a funny one to inspect, as technically the process is already running)

[mate2go]

Thanks for the info, great