How can I change the title bar of a gnome theme to black

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You can edit title bar colours here:

sudo gedit /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml

Edit these two sections:

name="titlebar_fill_focused"

name="titlebar_fill_unfocused"

It will change colours of all windows (checked in fedora)

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Updated on June 04, 2022

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  • Costa Michailidis
    Costa Michailidis almost 2 years

    Update:

    I tried changing the top line in my gtkrc2.0 file to this gtk-color-scheme = "base_color:#000000\nfg_color:#000000\ntooltip_fg_color:#000000\nselected_bg_color:#000000\nselected_fg_color:#000000\ntext_color:#000000\nbg_color:#000000\ntooltip_bg_color:#000000" but that didn't seem to help either.

    I'm making some tweaks to my desktop (Ubuntu 14.04 with Gnome-shell 3.9.90) and I want to get my title bar black. By title bar I mean the thing you double click on to maximize the window or drag it around. It's grey now with (Adwaita).

    I can't tell which css file to edit or which field to change in gnome tweak tool.

    Ideally I could just add a few overrides to the .gtkrc-2.0 or .gtkrc-3.0 file, because ultimately it's just gVim, Firefox and the Gnome Terminal that I'd like to change that titlebar color on.

    Any help would rock!

    Here's my .gtkrc-2.0

    style "vimfix" {
      bg[NORMAL] = "#000000" # this matches my vim theme 'Normal' bg color.
    }
    widget "vim-main-window.*GtkForm" style "vimfix"
    

    So far this just fixes a tiny grey bottom-border on gVim. But it's not changing the color on the titlebar of the window of gVim.

    Update: Tried making this change in ~/.themes/Adwaita-borderless/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml, and selecting 'Adwaita-bordeless' for the window theme in the gnome-tweak-tool, but it didn't seem to effect anything:

    <draw_ops name="titlebar_fill_focused">
      <gradient type="vertical" x="0" y="0" width="width" height="height">
        <color value="#000000" />
        <color value="#000000" />
      </gradient>
    </draw_ops>
    
    <draw_ops name="titlebar_fill_unfocused">
      <rectangle color="C_titlebar_unfocused" x="0" y="0" width="width" height="height" filled="true" />
      <rectangle color="#000000" x="0" y="0" width="width" height="height" filled="true" />
    </draw_ops>