workaround for overwritten gtk.css file

[MrtnKk]

I was looking for a way to reenable the little stepper arrows in scrollbars on Manjaro Gnome and came across a quickfix where you add some CSS code to gtk.css.

This extension is installed and enabled by default in Manjaro Gnome and unfortunately always overwrites my changes to gtk.css upon restart. I've discussed the problem in the Manjaro Forum and was advised to ask for a workaround or tip. So here I am. :)

Is there some kind of workaround for the problem you can recommend? Maybe some other 'user file' where I could save these GTK CSS changes to without 'Custom Accent Colors' overwriting them?

[demetrisk03]

hey @MrtnKk, unfortunately there's not a way for the extension to be enabled without overwriting the gtk.css file, one workaround I can think of is to copy the contents of the gtk.css file created by the extension to your own gtk.css file and then disabling the extension.

[Armaelius]

@MrtnKk, Hello! Maybe you can add an additional field for "extra" config to your extension, which will be added to the same file, but lower (additional input field)

[MrtnKk]

@Armaelius, Where would I have to make these changes? Would that be: /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/custom-accent-colors@demiskp/resources/maia/gtk.css

(Manjaro uses 'Maia' as default option)

@demiskp, Tbh, I was hoping for another file where GTK would look for CSS code.

How about adding a feature where the extension would check for a user provided file with CSS code to include in its own gtk.css file?

[demetrisk03]

@MrtnKk I might try to implement this feature in the future

[MrtnKk]

Adding my CSS code to /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/custom-accent-colors@demiskp/resources/maia/gtk.css seems to be a bad idea. I've checked my system logs and get a lot of the following error messages for all kinds of processes:

gjs[26180]: Theme parser error: gtk.css:4:3-37: No property named "-GtkScrollbar-has-backward-stepper"
gjs[26180]: Theme parser error: gtk.css:5:3-36: No property named "-GtkScrollbar-has-forward-stepper"
nautilus[26938]: Theme parser error: gtk.css:4:3-37: No property named "-GtkScrollbar-has-backward-stepper"
nautilus[26938]: Theme parser error: gtk.css:5:3-36: No property named "-GtkScrollbar-has-forward-stepper"
…

Any more ideas for enabling stepper arrows in GNOME v. 43.3 while having this extension enabled?

[demetrisk03]

@MrtnKk unfortunately I can't think of another idea, if you want to have a custom .css file you'll probably have to disable the extension.

[MrtnKk]

As you say, the only solution was to disable the extension (which I now did). This closes the issue I guess. Thanks for trying to help out anyway. :)