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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Gtk manual gives the following information:

There is a setting called gtk-theme-name that is read from the
"settings.ini" file

On settings file:

In the absence of an Xsettings manager, GTK+ reads default values for
settings from settings.ini files in /etc/gtk-3.0, $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/gtk-3.0
 and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0. These files must be valid key files (see
GKeyFile), and have a section called Settings. Themes can also provide
default values for settings by installing a settings.ini file next to their
gtk.css file.

On theme lookup:

First, the file $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/gtk.css is loaded if it exists.
Then, GTK+ loads the first existing file among
XDG_DATA_HOME/themes/THEME/gtk-VERSION/gtk.css,
$HOME/.themes/THEME/gtk-VERSION/gtk.css,
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/themes/THEME/gtk-VERSION/gtk.css and
DATADIR/share/themes/THEME/gtk-VERSION/gtk.css, where THEME is the name of
the current theme (see the “gtk-theme-name”
<https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-theme-name>
 setting), DATADIR is the prefix configured when GTK+ was compiled (unless
overridden by the GTK_DATA_PREFIX environment variable), and VERSION is the
GTK+ version number. If no file is found for the current version, GTK+
tries older versions all the way back to 3.0.


For the zim on windows, XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set to %APPDATA% /zim/config

So my best guess without testing is that if you create
"%APPDATA%/zim/config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini" and set the theme name, it
should be used by Gtk. To find %APPDATA% just type "%APPDATA%" in the
navigation bar of windows file explorer.


Let me know whether this works. I'll put the information in the manual and
maybe just make a preference setting for this.

Regards,

Jaap



On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 3:49 AM Jesse Sloane <sloanej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using the Windows install of 0.73.2, and would be gratefun for
> guidance on changing the color theme. At the minimum it would be great
> to have a dark background for regular text. For the old Windows versions
> done by Brendan Kidwell I could figure out from the documentation what
> directory to put a GTK theme into and then what config file to modify to
> specify which theme to use.
>
> For these new Windows installations, I think I've found the directory to
> add themes into (on my machine, 'C:\Program Files\Zim Desktop
> Wiki\share\themes\') but can't figure out what file will make Zim apply
> a different theme (I've been looking in
> 'C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\zim\config\zim\' and the various
> subdirectories of 'C:\Program Files\Zim Desktop Wiki\share\'). I even
> tried replacing the files in ('C:\Program Files\Zim Desktop
> Wiki\share\themes\Default\gtk-3.0\') with files of the same name from
> another GTK theme, but the colors in Zim didn't change.
>
> What should I be doing? I noticed that there was some discussion on
> Reddit about how to get a dark theme in the newer Windows installations
> of Zim but no one found an answer.
>
> As you can can tell I'm not a software developer and don't have any deep
> knowledge of how these applications are set up. I've just used Zim to
> organize for my own work over many years and find it an amazing tool.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Jesse
>
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