Re: [Geary] Dark background

[Federico Bruni <fede inventati org>]

Hi Petur

It's explained in the FAQ, under Customize message CSS:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/FAQ#Under_the_Hood

Basically you need a file like the following:

$ cat ~/.config/geary/user-message.css
body {
 background-color: grey;
}

// This is supposed to work for the composer, but does not work.
// I still see white background.
.plain {
 background-color: grey;
}


You should play with `geary -i` and use the inspector to find anything 
you might need to customize.
As you can see in the comment, the composer is still showing white 
background.

I agree that the white background in dark themes is not a good idea.

Hope it helps
Federico


Il giorno lun 19 feb 2018 alle 12:20, Pétùr <peturvilj gmail com> ha 
scritto:
> Hi,
>
> Geary is to bright for me.
>
> I would like to change the background color of the message writing 
> panel for something darker.
>
> Some themes change the background of the folder list panel and the 
> messages list panel. But the more important for me is to change the 
> message writing panel (because it is where my eyes spend the most 
> time).
>
> I am aware this is probably because email are written in html in 
> Geary and this set the white color for background. But I deactivate 
> the option "compose as html" in dconf-editor ; with no effect (I 
> still have the makeup buttons ; it seems this option triggers 
> nothing).
>
> What is the proper way to change background for message writing?
>
> P-S : I am using Xfce with the arc-darker theme. I would prefer a 
> solution which does not involves themes changing (and apply only to 
> geary ).