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How do I reverse the active/inactive tab colors in files for the default 24.04 ubuntu theme?

The active tab is 'greyed out' while the inactive tabs are 'white'. Dark theme reverses such that active is lighter than inactive, but the rest of dark theme is unusable for me, so that's not a viable alternative.

Possibly related aside: text edit also has grey active/white inactive. Fortunately I could install gedit (46.2) which adds a high visibility orange underline to the active tab and use that instead. Default Gnome terminal (3.52.0 for gnome 46) also includes the orange high visibility underline on tabs which is great.

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The tool "Gradience" allows to edit colors of GTK4 apps that use the libadwaita library to theme their appearance. Likely, you will be able to change the color of the selected tab with it.

While Gradience probably will still work for the most part, development unfortunately stopped.

vanadium
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My solution/workaround was simply switching to a new file manager - I switched to Nemo, at least for now.

NotTheDr01ds
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