A few dark GTK themes show how to fix the resulting Firefox's dark textboxes and forms, however those fixes don't work with Firefox 3. After a bit of googling I found an Arch Linux thread that provided a solution. Since I couldn't find anything on Ubuntu Forums I thought I would post it here. Step 1. Install the Stylish Add-on **notes on using Stylish ** The next 2 steps need you to create Styles in the Stylish add-on. To do this you can: A. Click on the stylish icon to the right of the status bar > Manage Styles > Write OR B. Tools > Add-ons > Scroll to Stylish and click Preferences > Manage Styles >Write **back to the HOW-TO ** Step 2. Create (and Enable) "Nice Firefox Themes" Style in Stylish Code: /******* Stylish Code: @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); Step 4. Back up original forms.css in /usr/lib/xulrunner-x.x.x.x/res (at the time of this HOW-TO, xulrunner-1.9.0.1 is used, it may be different) Code: sudo cp /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.1/res/forms.css /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.1/res/forms.css.back Step 5. Create a new forms.css Code: (KDE users type kwrite instead of gedit)sudo gedit /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.1/res/forms.css Paste the following as your new forms.css Code: /* ***** BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK ***** Step 6. Restart Firefox Done! Notes: **Everytime Firefox updates, you will have to repeat steps 4 and 5. Just keep a copy of the fixed forms.css (ie. forms.css.dark) in your /usr/lib/xulrunner-x.x.x.x **If you're using Firefox Widgets, this forms.css will stop using Firefox Widgets. However, the widgets do not use the default look, the forms.css gives them a rounded apple look. |
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
HOW TO: Firefox 3 and dark themes
Excerpt from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=873486 . Works like a charm up to 3.03.
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