How to change the colour of the window border for HexChat on Windows
10?
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TheOptimalGPU · 2019-07-14 18:59

How did you make Hexchat dark?

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Old_Traveller · 2019-07-14 20:42

I'm using a gtk theme (Vertex). You can read about it here:
https://hexchat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/appearance.html#gtk-theme

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Old_Traveller · 2019-07-19 18:23

Fixed. Go to Settings --> Personalization --> Colors, and under "Show
accent color on the following surfaces" tick the option "Title bars
and window borders"

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bense · 2019-08-30 04:52

You can modify the GTK theme / change the GTK2 theme, etc. You can
make it so that it has it's own values, or you can create a user
defined, 'global' gtk2 theme and symlink the hexchat gtkrc to your
globally defined gtkrc using 'mklink.exe' (a windows utility used for
NTFS symlinks).

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OR you can bypass all of that, and leave it as is, because there's a
quicker and more efficient method. The default gtk2 theme that's
included in hexchat already reads the Microsoft Windows MFC theme
values. The problem is, that microsoft does not really provide you
with an application that allows you to set or change all of the
values. The only tool that they offered, which was in windows 7 has
been stripped out of win10. But even the microsoft provided theme
editor in windows 7, never really allowed you to set all the values in
the first place.

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What you need to do is you need to use a tool called '3dcc' (3d color
changer). [http://3dcc.jote.eu/](http://3dcc.jote.eu/) It is an OLD
tool (last update was over 15 years ago), but it lets you create or
import themes, and it injects them into the windows settings, which
lets you change the theme entirely, without having to use ANY
additional software overhead. It still works in windows 8.1, and I've
been able to get it to work with windows 10. Sometimes you need to
switch over to one of the accessibility themes in order to kickstart
windows into thinking that it needs pay attention to the theme that
you just injected. Good luck.

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bense · 2019-08-30 04:52

Damn, I didn't realize that this post was over a month old lol

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lanbird · 2020-01-07 19:10

if you are using ubuntu, download gnome-tweak-tool and change theme
for dark.