Ubuntu 11.10 - Replace the Default (and Annoying) Orange Scheme
Switching to Ubuntu 11.10 is painful, ugly and time consuming… but more on that some other time.
I was quite surprised to see most of the theme control options are now gone. The Appearance panel has no colour tweaks and I hate the default orange scheme. Luckily, there is a way to change it in Gtk3:
$ sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
$ dconf-editor
Browse to org.gnome.desktop.interface
. Locate gtk-color-scheme
. Edit the property:
bg_color:#f0f1f2;selected_bg_color:#4677f0
Change the colours to your liking. You may need to re-launch some apps for changes to take effect.
…now if I could only get those Gnome Terminal tabs to look darker.