zavageandClaude Opus 5
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The GTK3 sheets targeted GTK 3.18 and broke at 3.20, when the CSS class model was replaced by element nodes. On 3.24 they parsed but matched almost nothing: buttons, entries, tabs, scales and scrollbars rendered as bare rectangles. Rewritten against the node model. gtk-3.0/ gtk.css colour definitions only - recolour the theme here widgets.css all widget rules, node-selector based mate.css MATE panel, applets, window list, Caja, terminal gtk-dark.css alias of gtk.css (the theme is already dark) legacy/ the original 3.18 sheets, moved aside for reference Palette retargeted to the WAR10CK window in Live Free or Die Hard: bg #23425E, accent #BA6A07. Supporting shades derived with the original theme's own ratios (raised x1.42, recessed x0.72). Text had to be lifted - the old #868A8E scores 3.0:1 on #23425E, so normal text is #B4C4D2 (5.85:1) and bright text #E8F0F7 (9.06:1). metacity-1/ pixmaps remapped by projecting each pixel onto the segment between its two nearest source anchors and re-blending against the new ones, so antialiased edges stay clean. Titlebar is ~7px taller, its text is centred and no longer a hardcoded #6d7379 for both focus states, and the idle window-button glyphs are white instead of a dim orange that turned to mud on the lighter bar. Scrollbars are deliberately not accent-coloured; @scrollbar_slider (#454F5A) keeps them quiet at rest and findable on hover. Fixes a transparent-body bug: GtkDialog and GtkAssistant do not use the `window` CSS node in 3.20+, so every dialog, About box and file chooser rendered as a hole through to the desktop. Attribution and the GPL-3.0 modification notice added to README.md, index.theme and metacity-theme-1.xml. Licence unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Diehard4
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GTK3 Theme
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> **This is a modified version of Diehard4.**
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> Original theme by **obscurant** (2016). Modified in **September 2026** by
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> **zavage**: the GTK3 sheets were rewritten for the post-3.20 CSS node model
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> (the originals target GTK 3.18 and render almost nothing on 3.24), and the
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> palette was retargeted to the on-screen colours from *Live Free or Die Hard*.
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> See the sections at the end of this file for the full list of changes.
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>
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> Licensed GPL-3.0, same as the original. Original copyright is retained in
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> `LICENSE` and in `metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml`.
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Full rewrite of the gtk2/gtk3 themes. Includes themes for cinnamon, openbox, xfwm, pekwm and tint2. Unity support is included, but it's not so great.
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Font is cure, from the [Artwiz](http://sourceforge.net/projects/artwiz-latin1) font pack ([install guide](http://whatnotlinux.blogspot.com/2011/11/install-artwiz-fonts-in-ubuntu.html)).
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Icons are [Faenza](http://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/Faenza-Icons-173323228) and [Variations](http://www.deviantart.com/art/VARIATIONS-1-201731613).
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[Wallpaper](http://i.imgbox.com/o3LkOuEW.png)
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[Audacious skin](http://zomby.deviantart.com/art/Diehard4-for-Audacious-599888259)
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Changelog
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v1.5 (3/17/16)
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• Cinnamon theme rewrite
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• gtk3 tab padding reduction
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• Fixes to unselected tab close button
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• Fixes to terminal tabs
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v1.4
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• gtk3 toolbar, menubar padding reduction
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• gtk3 Menubar text color
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• gtk3 Tweaks to seekbars
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• Metacity text color
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v1.3
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• Fixed resize bug with some applications
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v1.2
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• gtk2 menu arrow selected
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• gtk2 input padding
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• gtk2 progress bar height
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• Added style for Reddit Reader desklet in Cinnamon theme
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---
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## GTK3 port (v2.0, 2026-09-18)
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The GTK3 half of this theme was written for GTK 3.18 and stopped working when
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GTK 3.20 replaced the CSS class model with element nodes. On GTK 3.24 the old
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sheets parsed but matched almost nothing, so buttons, entries, tabs, scales and
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scrollbars rendered as bare rectangles.
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`gtk-3.0/` has been rewritten against the current node model:
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| file | contents |
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| `gtk.css` | colour definitions only — recolour the theme here |
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| `widgets.css` | all widget rules, node-selector based |
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| `mate.css` | MATE panel, applets, window list, Caja, terminal |
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| `gtk-dark.css` | alias of `gtk.css` (the theme is already dark) |
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| `legacy/` | the original 3.18 sheets, unmodified, for reference |
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Palette, metrics and design language are unchanged. Deliberate deviations,
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all made because the original value no longer reads on 3.24:
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* `trough_border_color` was `#111B25`, within one step of the window
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background — scale, progressbar and switch troughs were invisible. Now
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`@light_color`, the same border entries already used.
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* Keyboard focus draws a faint dashed outline. The original set
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`-GtkWidget-focus-line-width: 0`, which on 3.24 leaves no focus cue at all.
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* Entries take an accent-coloured border on focus.
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* `GtkSwitch` is new — it barely existed in MATE in 2016 and the original
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never styled it.
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* Notebook tab padding is `3px 10px` rather than `1px 8px`; the old value
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is below the minimum tab height GTK now enforces.
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Do not put `gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme` in `gtk-3.0/settings.ini`.
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It makes GTK reload the theme, which re-reads the file, and applications hang
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on startup. The theme ships without a `settings.ini` for that reason.
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The GTK2 sheet (`gtk-2.0/gtkrc`) is untouched and still correct — GTK2 never
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changed under it. It needs the `gtk2` and `gtk-engines` packages installed to
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have any effect.
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Window decorations come from `metacity-1/`, which Marco (MATE) reads directly.
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Emerald is not required and has not been maintained since the Compiz Fusion
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era.
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### Screen-accurate recolour (2026-09-18)
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Palette retargeted to the WAR10CK window in *Live Free or Die Hard*:
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* `bg_color` `#23425E` — window and titlebar
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* `selected_bg_color` `#BA6A07` — the orange edge bars and accents
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Supporting shades are derived from those two with the original theme's own
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ratios (raised `x1.42`, recessed `x0.72`). Text had to be lifted: the old
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`#868A8E` scores only 3.0:1 on `#23425E`, so normal text is now `#B4C4D2`
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(5.85:1) and bright text `#E8F0F7` (9.06:1).
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The `metacity-1/` pixmaps were remapped the same way — each pixel is
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projected onto the segment between its two nearest source anchors
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(`#9F440D` orange, `#0D151D` navy, `#C5CBD1` glyph) and re-blended against
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the new anchors, so antialiased edges stay clean. Originals are in
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`metacity-1.orig/`.
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Titlebar is taller: `title_vertical_pad` 0 -> 4 and `title_border` top/bottom
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5/0 -> 2/2, roughly +7px. The titlebar pixmaps are drawn with
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`height="height"` so they stretch to fit — no art changes needed. Title text
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was hardcoded `#6d7379` for both focus states; it is now `#E8F0F7` focused /
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`#8CA2B6` unfocused, and vertically centred with
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`y="(height - title_height) / 2"` instead of the old `y="0-3"` fudge.
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GTK headerbars (CSD apps) went from `min-height: 32px` to `40px` to match.
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### Why the left bar has no diagonal corner
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The Emerald original cut the orange bar at 45 degrees at the bottom-left. That
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was tried here and reverted — **Marco cannot reproduce it.** Recording why, so
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nobody burns an afternoon rediscovering it:
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* **Marco ignores per-pixel alpha in frame images.** Transparent pixels
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composite onto black, not onto the desktop, so a cut-away corner renders as a
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black triangle over the wallpaper. Verified by placing a magenta window behind
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the corner: the cut came out black, not magenta. Marco can only shape-clip the
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`rounded_*` corners, which is a binary mask and not usable for this. Emerald
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drew true ARGB decorations; Marco does not.
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* Filling the cut with the frame colour instead does render correctly, but it
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reads as the bar tapering into the border rather than a corner cut out of it,
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which is not the effect — hence the revert.
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* **Do not use `max()` or `min()` in a draw_ops expression.** Marco
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*segfaults* when it draws a frame using one — no parse error, no warning, the
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window manager dies and every window loses its decorations. It only crashes
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once a frame is actually drawn, so a WM started with no windows open looks
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fine. Plain arithmetic (`height - 13`) is safe, and Marco clamps negative
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results on very short windows without complaint.
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`GtkDialog` and `GtkAssistant` do **not** use the `window` CSS node in 3.20+ —
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they are `dialog` and `assistant`. A theme that only styles `window` leaves
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every dialog, About box, file chooser, colour/font picker and app chooser with
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a fully transparent body that renders as a hole through to the desktop. All
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three node names are covered in the toplevel background rule.
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Window buttons: the `state` attribute in `metacity-theme-1.xml` is the
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**mouse** state, not window focus — `normal` is idle and `prelight` is hover,
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and the draw_ops names are misleading about which is which. The idle
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minimise/maximise/close glyphs were a dim orange (`#7F5A29`) that worked on
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the old near-black bar and turned to mud on `#23425E`; all three are now
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`#E8F0F7`, with the orange square still appearing on hover.
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Scrollbars are deliberately **not** accent-coloured. An always-on-screen
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element in `#BA6A07` reads as an alarm, so the slider uses
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`@scrollbar_slider` (`#454F5A`) — 1.63:1 against the trough at rest, rising
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to 2.49:1 on hover so it is still easy to find and grab. Change that one
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token in `gtk.css` to restyle every scrollbar; hover, active and disabled
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are derived from it with `shade()`.
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Marco caches the metacity theme, so after editing it you must switch the
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Marco theme away and back for changes to show. GTK3 reloads CSS on file
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change by itself.
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