Totally black theme
Totally black theme
Hi everyone
I recently switched to a dark windows theme as using a 32'' monitor with too much white is a pain for the eyes (really XD).
I tweaked colours in preferences and in xyexplorer.ini too (RRGGBB tweak).
Pretty much black but Gray is still there in some areas:
I'd like to put yellow "separator" between tree and folders, have a (more) dark gray or black on tab bar and possibly kill that thin gray line below the menu bar.
Having a dark - black/yellow - also on address bar would be the top.
Any tips?
I recently switched to a dark windows theme as using a 32'' monitor with too much white is a pain for the eyes (really XD).
I tweaked colours in preferences and in xyexplorer.ini too (RRGGBB tweak).
Pretty much black but Gray is still there in some areas:
I'd like to put yellow "separator" between tree and folders, have a (more) dark gray or black on tab bar and possibly kill that thin gray line below the menu bar.
Having a dark - black/yellow - also on address bar would be the top.
Any tips?
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Re: Totally black theme
There is a tweak (http://www.xyplorer.com/faq-topic.php?id=tweak) for the Toolbar BackColor, that's all:
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; Tweak: RRGGBB
ToolbarBackColor=
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Re: Totally black theme
I used that. Perfet colorization for toolbar.
I was wondering if it was possible to do change colours also for address bar and tab background (they still are gray)
I was wondering if it was possible to do change colours also for address bar and tab background (they still are gray)
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Re: Totally black theme
They all use the Windows system color for "Button Face" (also the Toolbar). So why don't you simply set this color to black for the whole system?
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Ok, on win10 th2 themes are still working in progress (expecially theming support).admin wrote:They all use the Windows system color for "Button Face" (also the Toolbar). So why don't you simply set this color to black for the whole system?
I'll play with that, then
Re: Totally black theme
Hey Haden, would you like to share your tweaks, plz?
I am currently toying around to get everything black, too.
I am currently toying around to get everything black, too.
Re: Totally black theme
On windows 10 10586 (I mean latest TH2 patch. No support yet for slow rings and fast rings, that are beta and alpha version. I suggest to avoid them)chakkra wrote:Hey Haden, would you like to share your tweaks, plz?
I am currently toying around to get everything black, too.
However most of the procedure is the same for XP to 10.
1) Find and install Uxtheme patcher (it's auto for xp to 8.1)
2) For win10 you'll probably need to manually patch three files (uxtheme,uxinit,themeui) in system32. (Reboot after patch is suggested)
3) Download themes for your windows version, copy in c:\windows\resources\themes\ and apply theme.
After applying a dark theme, you should get full dark in xyexplorer (some themes doesn't full colourize the program; just switch to another theme).
Then just tweak colours in xyexplorer settings
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Re: Totally black theme
RRGGBB is a formula. For black you should do this:
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; Tweak: RRGGBB
ToolbarBackColor=000000
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It's hex. You appear to use this now:
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ToolbarBackColor=2d2d2d
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Care to share your dark theme with us somewhere Hadden?
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Yes, it would be nice to see those attributes you came up with to achieve that totally black background. I'm curious because a number of us had written theme changers http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 30#p101802 and I really wonder or question whether they included all of the attributes need to make the background shown above.
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