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I'm using PCManFM and I want to change the sidebar to a grey color. I know there's a Gtk 3 version but I don't want to add another repository. I'm also learning the Gtk+ UI toolkit and how Gtk theming works so I'd like to learn with this example.

Theming any Gtk3 app has become very easy with Gtk inspector, but that only works for Gtk3 apps and above. I couldn't make gtk parasite work For the Gtk2 version all I can apparently do is hopefully finding some theme that changed the sidebar. This is probably good to ask in another question, but having an inspector that works for any Gtk2 app about also help as well.

Here's a comparison where you can see thunar and PCManFM side by side for reference.

Also this is all I was able to find, but nothing worked

https://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?t=39441

https://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?t=36177

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1566335

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Ok, so looking at other themes and tweaking everything turns out the latest PCManFM using the Gtk 2.0 uses the treeview (or maybe some themes don't have this ui set to a transparent color so the base[NORMAL] style doesn't work:

style "pcmanfm-sidebar"{
 GtkTreeView::even-row-color = "#ebeced"
}

widget "FmMainWin.*.FmPlacesView" style "pcmanfm-sidebar"
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