Change default right click menu color from white to black?

Question

In 12.04 Ambiance theme, the default right click menu color changed from black to white.

From this bug-report, it appears this decision is by design

But I love black only. How can I change it to black?

Screenshot

Reminds me of the time I was tweaking 11.10's Ambiance to get a dark sidebar in Nautilus. That's not an answer to this question, per se, but editing the theme file(s) like I did is probably the way one would go about this, and it might give someone a place to start for formulating a proper answer. Checking the commit logs for light-themes in 12.04 on Launchpad to see when the change was made and a diff of the edits might also be useful. — Knowledge Cube, Apr 09 '12 at 06:24

Srinivas Gowda · Answer 1 · 2012-05-21T14:03:14.057

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Ok here's the modified Ambiance theme for 12.04

You can download the theme file from my blog

Extract it in home/username/.themes/. Use gnome-tweak-tools to change the theme.

Problem solved ;)

edited May 21 '12 at 14:03

answered Apr 28 '12 at 19:27

Srinivas Gowda

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may i know what's your wallpaper name? – itagomo Sep 14 '12 at 00:58

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 29 '12 at 07:00

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Stan Angeloff has created a theme that requires the use of ubuntu-tweak or gnome-tweak-tool (i used the former) to enable. Check this link:

edited May 29 '12 at 07:00

atenz

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answered Apr 28 '12 at 19:31

bbqchickenrobot

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Worked perfectly! – mac Apr 28 '12 at 21:17

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 09 '12 at 21:57

Now I suggest you use deviant-art to find a window theme that looks like Ambiance but has a black right-click menu I was able to find color versions of these themes at this link http://ubuntu-art.org/content/show.php?content=147891 but it will take some work finding an older version of Ambiance with this customization unless the Ubuntu community does something to change it for Precise.

If you have never changed a custom theme follow this link

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited May 21 '12 at 14:18

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it will definitly work if you edit /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk.css file because all theme colors rendered from that file but to do that you need to be root

gksu gedit /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

edited May 21 '12 at 14:18

amc

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answered Apr 23 '12 at 14:43

Victor P.

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score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:25

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As per omgubuntu

you can use this tweaked ambiance for 12.04

To make use of Ambiance Oneiric hit the button above to download the .zip file. Then extract the .zip archive in to the ‘.themes’ folder in your Home directory (tip: you’ll need to press CTRL+H to reveal hidden files).

Then apply the theme use myunity