custom colouring of tabs?

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custom colouring of tabs?

Opened this issue 9 years ago · 16 comments

Is it possible to have my own customisation of tabbar-ruler/tabbar with regard to colouring of the tabs please? For instance -

 '(tabbar-key-binding ((t (:inherit variable-pitch :background "gray12" :foreground "gainsboro" :weight bold))))
 '(tabbar-ruler-selected ((t (:inherit tabbar-ruler-default :background "black" :foreground "red"))))

is in my 'custom.el' and it would really enhance the view of tabbar-ruler/tabbar to have it being harmonious with the rest of my theme and emacs.

Answer 1 · 2016-05-27T04:57:02.000Z

I think this should work for you now.

Please let me know.

Answer 2 · 2016-05-27T14:32:55.000Z

Unfortunately it doesn't. This is what is in my 'inet.el'

(setq tabbar-ruler-global-tabbar t)
(require 'tabbar-ruler)
(setq tabbar-buffer-groups-function 'tabbar-buffer-groups)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c t") 'tabbar-ruler-move)
(mode-icons-mode -1)

(setq tabbar-ruler-background-color "gray12") ;; the color of the tabbar background
'(tabbar-key-binding ((t (:inherit variable-pitch :background "gray12" :foreground "gainsboro" :weight bold))))
'(tabbar-ruler-default ((t (:inherit variable-pitch :background "gray12" :foreground "gainsboro" :weight bold))))
'(tabbar-ruler-button ((t (:inherit tabbar-ruler-default :foreground "dark red" :style released-button))))
'(tabbar-ruler-button-highlight ((t (:inherit tabbar-ruler-default))))
'(tabbar-ruler-highlight ((t (:underline t))))
'(tabbar-ruler-selected ((t (:inherit tabbar-ruler-default :background "black" :foreground "red"))))
'(tabbar-ruler-separator ((t (:inherit tabbar-ruler-default :background "#95CA59" :weight bold :line-width 7 :height 25))))
'(tabbar-ruler-unselected ((t (:inherit tabbar-ruler-default))))

But it still remains with all tabbar tabs showing as white with black text, and selected tab showing as black with white text

Answer 3 · 2016-07-06T13:37:11.000Z

I have the same problem...
From my theme:

(custom-set-faces
 '(tabbar-default ((t (:height 0.85))))
 '(tabbar-unselected ((t (:inherit tabbar-default :foreground "DarkGray" :background "#1f4f4f" :bold t))))
 '(tabbar-button ((t (:inherit tabbar-default :foreground "WhiteSmoke" :background "#1f4f4f"))))
 '(tabbar-separator ((t (:background "gray50"))))
 '(tabbar-selected ((t (:inherit tabbar-default :foreground "WhiteSmoke" :background "#1f4f4f" :bold t)))))

And at the end of my init.el

(require 'tabbar-ruler)
  (setq tabbar-buffer-groups-function 'tabbar-buffer-groups)
  (set-face-attribute 'tabbar-unselected nil :foreground "DarkGray" :background "#1f4f4f" :bold t)

But it works if I do :
M-x eval: (set-face-attribute 'tabbar-unselected nil :foreground "DarkGray" :background "#1f4f4f" :bold t)

Regards

Answer 4 · 2016-07-06T15:10:26.000Z

I cannot figure out how to tag to see if the user changed the face attributes. If someone knows, I can fix this issue.

Answer 5 · 2016-07-06T16:02:56.000Z

I think, you can check if (face-differs-from-default-p 'tabbar-unselected) is nil.

Answer 6 · 2016-07-27T13:20:00.000Z

This may be fixed using face-differs-from-default-p. Sorry for the delay in response.

Answer 7 · 2016-07-28T07:27:47.000Z

No worries for the delay,

The correction is necessary but not sufficient. I also need to comment the instruction line 911.
(invert-face 'tabbar-selected) in tabbar-install-faces function.

Thanks a lot for your work

Answer 8 · 2016-07-28T13:16:46.000Z

This should be sufficient to not have to comment 911. Please reopen if it doesn't work for you.

Answer 9 · 2016-07-29T06:14:25.000Z

All works. Thanks a lot.

Answer 10 · 2016-08-02T03:11:09.000Z

Unfortunately, it makes all the rest of the customizations not work correctly :(

I have tried another method; Perhaps this will work for you...?

Answer 11 · 2016-08-02T08:58:34.000Z

The new version doesn't work for me. I will keep the older one for the moment.

Answer 12 · 2016-08-02T11:01:41.000Z

Matthew Fidler notifications@github.com writes:

Unfortunately, it makes all the rest of the customizations not work correctly :(

I have tried another method; Perhaps this will work for you...?

I've upgraded to 'tabbar-ruler-20160801.2007' and its completely got rid
of the incomprehensible blue text in the current tab, its now legible
again. And also the tabs are a lot more compressed which suits me fine.
By that I mean that the text itself seems more compressed, and fits in
with my custom theme, which on the current tab is white/red text on a
black background, and all other unselected text being black/orange text
on a white back ground, but I would still like to be able to have all
unselected tabs to have a custom-colored background which would fit in
with my theme.

Thanks

Sharon.

A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk
TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk
Debian 8.4, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 25.1.1

Answer 13 · 2016-08-03T15:21:00.000Z

@boudiccas can are you using custom-set-faces?

Answer 14 · 2016-08-03T17:44:27.000Z

Matthew Fidler notifications@github.com writes:

@boudiccas can are you using custom-set-faces?

I'm using my own theme called 'darkest-midnight'. Does this help?

Thanks

Sharon.

A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk
TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk
Debian 8.4, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 25.1.1

Answer 15 · 2016-08-11T09:06:42.000Z

I had this in my theme for using the latest version

(dolist (face '(tabbar-default
                tabbar-button
                tabbar-selected
                tabbar-selected-modified
                tabbar-unselected
                tabbar-unselected-modified))
  (put face 'saved-face-comment "modify"))

Everything is working, except for tabbar-unselected-modified which appear green instead-of orange despite

(custom-set-faces
'(tabbar-unselected-modified nil :foreground "DarkOrange3" ))

I don't understand why for the moment.
Regards

Answer 16 · 2016-08-11T22:05:15.000Z

This issue has always baffled me. I was goING to create a hash of default values to compare against, but haven't got to it yet