Draw a border around the active window in Gnome Shell

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I am using the shellshape extension for tiling in the gnome shell, and the paper gtk theme by Sam Hewitt. I want to modify one small thing in the theme, that's I would like to draw a thin border around the active window. I believe this should be doable but couldn't find the proper resources.

sencer

Posted 2017-10-05T17:09:43.323

Reputation: 431

1I control theme border settings by editing /usr/share/themes/{ThemeName}/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml – AFH – 2017-10-05T17:43:53.490

Thanks, this seems to be the correct place. Though I couldn't get my changes applied with <Alt-F2>+r, nor with logging out and in, for some reason. – sencer – 2017-10-05T18:17:29.867

I don't know at what point in the boot sequence GTK is initialised: I guess you need to do a full reboot. – AFH – 2017-10-05T21:14:29.137

GNOME Shell does not use Metacity theme unless you are using very very old gnome-shell / mutter. – muktupavels – 2017-10-23T14:14:34.580

Thanks, @muktupavels. This explains why I couldn't get it to work. Do you have any idea about how to do that? – sencer – 2017-10-23T18:07:35.110

@sencer by editing GTK+ theme and it depends on GTK+ version. – muktupavels – 2017-10-23T18:19:22.637

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