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

[Jim Charlton <charltn gmail com>]

On 15-03-15 08:24 PM, Jim Charlton wrote:
> 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
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Ahhh...  you can get shadowed borders by adding something like

.menubar {
  border-width: 1px;
  box-shadow:  inset 0 0 10px #000000;|
border-style: solid;
}

You can experiment with various box-shadow parameters.

jim...

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