How to set the gnome-shell accent colour?

[DiCaius]

Questioner Info

• Materia version: 20210322
• GTK3 version: 3.24.27
• Distribution (and version): Nixos 21.05pre283883.d235056d6d6 (Okapi)
• Desktop environment (and version): GNOME 3.38.3
• Related application (and version): GNOME Shell 3.38.3

Description

I was wondering which variable I should pass ./change_color.sh to change those white accents in my shell theme and if could set a darker backdrop for the search results to improve readability (screenshot below), I'm currently running this command:

./change_color.sh -o MateriaNixos-Dark <(echo -e "BG=${theme.dark.bg}\nFG=${theme.dark.fg}\nSEL_BG=${theme.dark.selBg}\nSEL_BG2=${theme.dark.selBg2}\nMATERIA_VIEW=${theme.dark.materiaView}\nHDR_BG=${theme.dark.hdrBg}\nMATERIA_SURFACE=${theme.dark.materiaSurface}\nMATERIA_COLOR_VARIANT=${theme.dark.materiaColourVariant}\nROUNDNESS=${theme.dark.roundness}\nMENU_FG=${theme.dark.menuFg}\nMENU_BG=${theme.dark.menuBg}\nMATERIA_STYLE_COMPACT=False\n")

But I can't seem to find the option I should change.

Screenshots

• Accents:

• Backdrop:

[codic12]

I'm curious how you got the change-color.sh script to work, by the way. I keep running into #573, just tried again.

[DiCaius]

@codic12 it's probably because I'm using NixOS to build the package, I have a separate build environment during the installation process where I can do pretty much anything within reason and after I'm done I just copy the build results to a separate readonly fs outside Linux FHS.