Easy way to set custom colors in Gnome?

[JimmJam]

I’m testing out Gnome on another computer, and was surprised by it’s easy customizability, but one thing that seems to be much more difficult than it should by searching it up was… customising the colors? Is there really no easier way than complex commands through the terminal?

[Yochanan]

The easy way? Install a custom theme. The not so easy way? Edit the CSS the same way themers do.

[bogdancovaciu]

@JimmJam

customising the colors

If you refer to the shell and gdm, see this:

[How To] User level of modifying GDM theme

Many users find themselves in the situation that their custom theme is not matching satisfactory, for their aesthetics, the GDM theme, or simply what to change the accent colors of the default GDM theme installed. Since GDM is using *.gresource file, a direct edit to it is not possible and needs to be extracted first, and then recompiled. Here is how you can do that: Use this shell script to extract the original GDM theme. #!/bin/sh gst=/usr/share/gnome-shell/gnome-shell-theme.gresource work…

The rest is gtk+ theme 1:1 as already mentioned.