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For some stange reason every theme I install on Google Chrome for Linux has a purple title bar:
Instead of looking the right way:
Kredns
Posted 2009-12-09T04:06:54.037
Reputation: 2 857
Why do all Google Chrome themes involve purple on Linux?
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There's a reported bug which looks like it was fixed four days ago: Theme color variation behind tabs
There's also another issue with a discoloured title bar when using the GTK theme which you might want to follow too.
SmileyChris
Posted 2009-12-09T04:06:54.037
Reputation: 276
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This is happening On Crunchbang 9.04.01 which is built off of Ubuntu 9.04. I am on a netbook but I am pretty sure this is unrelated to user preferences. My reason for this statement is Default theme AND any theme made by an artist ( https://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en/themes/index.html ) works fine. Only the alternative official Google themes create a purple overlay for the title bars.
Yeah I noticed this also. – Kredns – 2010-01-27T07:07:22.763
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So it looks to me like you've got "walnut" or some other wood theme hooked in.
Try this:
- create a new user,
- log into a new X session as them
- run chrome as them.
Is it still purple?
Hope this helps!
-pbr
pbr
Posted 2009-12-09T04:06:54.037
Reputation: 1 285
I tried what you said. It was still purple. It doesn't matter what them I use (except for default which is right). What made you think using another user would fix this (I don't mean this in a smart ass way, I'm just curious)? – Kredns – 2009-12-09T05:25:02.693
Oddness like this is typically caused by one of two things: (1) per-user misconfiguration (or just plain configuration) of either X or the app itself (2) system-wide misconfiguration or deficiency/known-issue with the hardware or the X server. – pbr – 2009-12-09T15:14:41.150
Thinking back on this, I think I've seen that same thing before myself. I found it odd and went back to the default theme.
I'm wondering - do you have Compiz turned off? Alex's comment about transparency may well be the key, especially since it seems to be "tinting" everything except the selected tab. The purple color could very well be Chrome's attempt to give Compiz a transparency hint. – pbr – 2009-12-09T15:16:02.397
Yeah... the more I look at that title bar the more I'm sure it's a transparency mask. I'll bet I had Compiz turned off on the machine where I saw this some time ago. (I'm not at home so I can't check to be sure) – pbr – 2009-12-09T15:26:08.497
I've tried it with and without Compiz turned on. The only time I have had a theme work for me was back on Ubuntu 9.04. – Kredns – 2009-12-10T07:18:58.597
Well, I recommend submitting a bug report on this then. Especially if it worked for you on 9.04 and stopped on 9.10 – pbr – 2009-12-10T15:00:02.003
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Maybe it uses the color from System Menu::Preferences::Appearance::Theme::Customize::Colors Tab:: Selected Items (Background) ?
Kyle Brandt
Posted 2009-12-09T04:06:54.037
Reputation: 3 089
No if it were using that it would be black. – Kredns – 2009-12-10T01:07:54.323
only for chrome ? – ukanth – 2009-12-09T12:54:57.600
1Doesn't purple usually have something to do with transparency? – alex – 2009-12-09T13:30:38.290
@UK: Yep only for chrome. No other program does this. – Kredns – 2009-12-10T01:07:08.583