Re: borderless MacOS menus (was 'Gtk3 MacOS (OSX) context menu issues')

[Jim Charlton <charltn gmail com>]

On 15-03-15 01:49 PM, Roger Davis wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion, Jim, but no luck so far in getting any 
> change to my menu borders via
>
> .window-frame, .window-frame:backdrop {
>   box-shadow: 6px 6px;
>   margin: 6px;
> }
>
> which I added to a new $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/gtk.css file. This 
> file is definitely being parsed at app startup time, because if I change
>
> .window-frame, .window-frame:backdrop {
>
> to instead read
>
> * {
>
> I get the most hideous GUI imaginable, i.e., big ugly shadow borders 
> around almost everything *except* my menus, which are still completely 
> borderless! It just seems like my system is flat-out never drawing any 
> menu borders no matter what.
>
> Roger
>
>
> On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Jim Charlton wrote:
>
> > My experience has been that I can set the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment 
> > variable to the path to the gtk-3.0 directory (eg. 
> > /opt/local/share/themes/Default) and then put both the gtk.css and 
> > the settings.ini file in the /opt/local/share/themes/Default/gtk-3.0/ 
> > directory. When a gtk3 application is run, both files will be 
> > processed.  You can put css into the gtk.css file and it seems to 
> > override the in-line (compiled?) theme data.  If you do figure out 
> > how to put shadowed margins on the menus, let us know if it brings 
> > back the item selection problem.


If you just want to put a border on the menubar you can try adding

.menubar {
  border-width: 6px;
  background-color: red;
  border-color: black;
  border-style: solid;
}

to the gtk.css file.  This will give a red background and a wide, black 
border to the menubar.  Or apply the same configuration to .menuitem to 
give background color and borders to all menu items in the menubar and 
in the dropdown menu boxes.

I am not quite sure how you could make it shadowed.

jim...  Jim Charlton