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diff --git a/docs/DEFAULTS.md b/docs/DEFAULTS.md index 217075b..014c6f5 100644 --- a/docs/DEFAULTS.md +++ b/docs/DEFAULTS.md @@ -1052,7 +1052,30 @@ setting: buttons moved from x=25/49/73 (left) to x=817/841/865 (right), landing in the same place and the same order as srdwm's own titlebar buttons directly above them. -### Button style: a user CSS override +### Button style: srdwm generates the CSS + +srdwm writes `~/.config/gtk-3.0/srdwm-buttons.css` (and the GTK 4 copy) from +`theme.decorations.title_bar.button_style`, and rewrites it on every start +and every config reload. It adds one line to your own `gtk.css`: + +```css +@import url("srdwm-buttons.css"); +``` + +That line is added once if missing and nothing else in the file is ever +touched. The import sits first because CSS only allows `@import` before +other rules - which also means your own rules come after it and win, so +anything you write in `gtk.css` still overrides the generated style. + +Verified end to end on a real GTK app, both ways: with `button_style = +"traffic_lights"` Nemo's own header draws coloured dots, and with +`"traditional"` it draws a dash, a square and an X - in both cases matching +srdwm's own titlebar directly above it. + +srdwm writes only its own file, and skips a GTK version whose config +directory does not exist rather than creating one. + +### Doing it by hand instead srdwm's `button_style` draws srdwm's own titlebar. A GTK app draws its own buttons from its GTK theme, and no compositor setting reaches those - but |