Ambiance is the name of the default theme Ubuntu used until 18.04. Its lighter counterpart is called Radiance.
Questions tagged [ambiance]
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Change the opacity of a cut selection (nemo.css)
I am trying to find what I need to edit in a GTK theme (specifically Ambiance) to change the opacity of a cut file. A selected file is orange and when I cut it, it is a little opaque - I'd like it to be more transparent, so that it is easily…
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What can be done to make Wine look more integrated into Unity?
Wine looks like an alien that says "Hello, I am definitely not part of your desktop environment". Many wine applications have no icons and wine itself runs on the ugly-looking windows 95 theme.
Is there a way to make wine more aesthetic and less…
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Change default right click menu color from white to black?
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?
mac
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gnome-terminal tabs are very dark, difficult to tell which tab is in use
Here are two applications that use tabs: gedit and gnome-terminal
gedit: It is relatively easy to see which document is being edited
terminal: It is difficult to tell whether I am using the left or right terminal, because both of the tabs are very…
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Is there a good Ambience theme for Xubuntu (XFCE, XFWM)?
Looks ridiculous, but I can't find Ambience theme for XFCE out the in the Internet (while there are even couple of pretty good versions for Windows XP). Could you share a link? I even don't require everything (like controls and icons) look exactly…
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Is there an Ambiance theme available for Windows?
I tend to run Windows apps with VirtualBox in seamless mode (so that virtualized Windows applications windows and Windows taskbar appear alongside host OS windows instead of a separate virtual machine screen). To make the experience even more…
Ivan
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Why does Radiance have GtkLabel while Ambiance doesn't?
I was looking at the gtk-widgets.css files in Ambiance and Radiance (/usr/share/themes/theme_name/gtk-3.0/) after the recent light-themes update. One difference I noted in the section titled notebook is given below.
Ambiance:
.notebook tab:active {
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12.04 wholly dark Ambiance theme?
I got my first partition of Ubuntu recently, and wanted to match it to a 10 or 11 interface I was using on another computer. It looked like this:
Themes in 12.04 seem to be rather tricky though. I've delved into usr/share/themes and ~/. Themes…
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How can I install Ubuntu's Ambiance theme in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 last week but I hate the default Yaru theme. I just love the old Ubuntu Ambiance theme and the Ubuntu's old icon pack.
How do I install the old Ambiance theme and icon pack?
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Install Ambiance theme in Ubuntu GNOME
I installed Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 and want to install the ambiance theme found in the normal saucy distribution. How to do it?
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Changing the Ubuntu 13.10 Ambiance Colours
In previous versions of Ubuntu (including Ubuntu 13.04) I was able to change the system ambiance colour from orange to a colour of my liking by using this in the terminal:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-color-scheme…
Seth
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How can I change the tooltip color or font in Ambiance?
I'm using the Ambiance theme in Ubuntu 10.04 which I am generally quite happy with but I would like to change the tooltip color or font. I sometimes find it hard to make out the white text on the black background, so I would like to be able to…
user8979
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Menubar text color and firefox black making is unreadable with Ambiance. How do I fix this?
Ever since I purged kubuntu-desktop from my ubuntu installation, my firefox menu bar text changed to black. I now have trouble using firefox with the ambiance theme.
Is there a package or something that may need to be adjusted?
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title bar display glitch with ambiance and radiance window theme on background window
I use Ubuntu 12.04 with gnome-shell and default Ambiance window theme. There is a display glitch on title bar of background windows. It can be seen on the screenshot below.
The bug also occurs with with Radiance window theme, and also when I use…
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Is there a way to specify a global look and feel for swing apps?
Every time I install Netbeans on Ubuntu, I have to edit the ./etc/netbeans.conf file to include an option specifying the look and feel; otherwise, the menus are all black on dark gray, which is impossible to use.
Is there a way to specify a global…
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