Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Changing a Chrome/Chromium theme

Installed the Ambiance Theme for Chrome in Chromium running on Ubuntu 10.04.3.
Nice theme, but one issue existed; the text on the inactive tabs wasn't visible enough. How could I change that?

On Linux:
* Install the extension and find the extension folder located in ~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions/
* Open the manifest.json file in a text editor of choice and change the tab_background_text attribute to the color (in RGB) that you want, in my case: 164, 164, 160
* In Chromium; Click on the wrench -> Tools -> Extensions and click on "Developer mode"
* Click "Load unpacked extension" and navigate to the folder where the edited manifest.json file is, click "Open".
* You should now see that that the text color of the inactive tabs have changed.

For more information about styling attributes, see this documentation: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ThemeCreationGuide