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Theme a single GTK application
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#!/bin/bash | |
# Licence: zlib/libpng | |
# Year:: 2017 | |
# Status:: beta | |
# Description:: Change the theme of a specific application | |
EXIT_PREREQ_UNAVAILABLE=80 | |
# This doesn't use actual bash arrays, but rather strings separated by arbitrary | |
# characters. For actual arrays, use https://stackoverflow.com/a/8574392/5389585 | |
# Usage: detect_in_arr $val $arr $sep || echo $val is not in $arr | |
function detect_in_arr(){ | |
val="$1" | |
arr="$2" | |
sep="$3" | |
declare -A map | |
while IFS= read -r -d "$sep" name; do | |
map["$name"]=1 | |
done <<<"$arr" | |
if [[ ${map["$val"]} ]] ; then | |
return 0 | |
else | |
return 1 | |
fi | |
} | |
if ! detect_in_arr "$HOME/bin" "$PATH" ":"; then | |
echo "$HOME/bin" must be in your \$PATH >&2 | |
exit $EXIT_PREREQ_UNAVAILABLE | |
fi | |
#This will only work if you have $HOME/bin in your $PATH. To do this, add this line anywhere in ~/.bashrc: | |
# [ -d ~/bin ] && export PATH=~/bin:$PATH | |
# You can change this if you want | |
app_only_theme=Crux | |
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications | |
sed "s,Exec=firefox,Exec=$HOME/bin/firefox," < /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop > ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop | |
# Write a shell script | |
cat > $HOME/bin/firefox <<EOS | |
#!/bin/sh | |
env GTK_THEME=$app_only_theme /usr/bin/firefox | |
EOS | |
chmod 555 $HOME/bin/firefox | |
# Set the priority to a little bit higher than the current browser. | |
priority=$((10 + $(update-alternatives --query x-www-browser|grep Priority | sed 's/Priority: //' | sort -h |tail -n1) )) | |
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser $HOME/bin/firefox $priority | |
sed -i s,/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop,firefox.desktop, ~/.config/lxpanel/*/panels/panel | |
# Problem with this solution: There are many ways to launch firefox, application menus, from the command line via firefox or x-www-browser. Changing it via invocation requires changing every method of invocation. |
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