CodeLite IDE

So default the background of "output view" panel is gray. However by accident I clicked it and it changed to orange, which is very annoying. How can I revert it to gray?

Any by the way, is it a bug? It happens on both windows and linux and there is no way to revert it other than reseting whole layout to default.

The "Orange" means that it is active.
if you click on the "Workspace" View caption - it will turn orange as well (and the output view will become grey again)

You can change the default theme of codelite from:
settings -> global editor preferences -> misc -> icon set

Change it to "fresh farm" - and restart codelite. The orange will become blue

Eran

Thanks. But is there a way to make both workspace and output unactive? I mean, I like that default grey when both are unactive.

netrick wrote:Thanks. But is there a way to make both workspace and output unactive? I mean, I like that default grey when both are unactive.

No

Eran

Okay. By any chance, are codelite's themes stored in some files so I can manually change the colors?

No. If they were stored in a file, I would have made them accessible from UI

Eran

if you're already building your own CL, use the attached patch.

It's a hack that replaces one hardcoded color with another but does the job if you find the default color too distracting.

cheers,

-- p

petah wrote:if you're already building your own CL, use the attached patch.

It's a hack that replaces one hardcoded color with another but does the job if you find the default color too distracting.

cheers,

-- p

Why don't u make it a generic patch and provide a way to the user to select the background colour?
(it can go to settings -> global editor preferences -> misc page )
Eran

I did start thinking about how to expose this via a bitmap whose corner colors would be used for the gradient, and asked for feedback in the "CL appearance" thread but nobody seemed to care... I was content with my hack and realized there were more important things than a mere background color... so just left it there.

Anyway I wouldn't dare clogging CL's user interface; I think this should firmly be in your hands.

cheers,

-- p

Hi,

I agree with you; I find having an active colour distracting. My solution is to get the layout as I like, and do 'Perspective > Save current layout as' using 'default-bak.layout' or 'debug-bak.layout' or whatever name; then save it again as default.layout or... Then when I accidentally click on the bar and the colour strikes, I just revert to the backup.

(That's not really what I do; I actually duplicate the my working ~/.codelite/config/default.layout or debug.layout using a file manager. But the above is a way to do the same thing from within CodeLite.)

Regards,

David