Custom CSS stylesheet location

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Hi all
I am looking at tweaking one of the built in sylesheets, but can’t see where it should go so that I can select it in the html option tab from the stylesheet dropdown when creating a new narrated website report.

  1. The wiki suggests you create a new one in a new css folder:
    “copy one of the existing stylesheet in $HOME/.gramps/css/ . This directory doesn’t exist. You must create it before copying your future stylesheet”
    I tried creating that folder and adding a renamed copy of an existing css, but I don’t see it in the dropdown list.

  2. The wiki also suggests that it goes into a css folder in the plugsin folder:
    “Please place the css file in your plugins css directory and select it from the reports Stylesheet option found on the [Html options] tab.”
    I created a css folder in plugins, and placed a copied css stylesheet into it but but that did not seem to work either.

I closed and restarted Gramps each time, in case it needed to pickup the location, but no luck. Is there another place for a custom stylesheet? I am using Windows 10, GrampsAIO64-5.1.2-1.

John

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Hi John

You are on Windows so the folder will be with your user files.

c:\users%you%\appdata\roaming\gramps\css

In Windows, the AppData will be hidden by default.

To have it work, make sure that the css file has a unique name different than the default Gramps options.

Once the file is in the folder, you will need to relaunch Gramps for it to be seen

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Thanks DaveSch,

That worked, I can see my new css file in the dropdown.

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Version 5.2.1 includes a change for the default Adwaita theme:

One change was in Windows AIO installer build: install of the icons was pruned to the 16x16, 32x32, and cursors. Meanwhile, Gramps was looking at the wrong directory.
“fullcolor: low res only at 16x16, lean onto the scalables for everything else” - we were looking for a 32x32 directory.

In addition, Nick noted…

We have a /usr/share/gramps/gramps.css, but users should only change it if they know what they are doing.

Most users should just download a theme from https://www.gnome-look.org and install it. Gramps will just use the active Gnome theme.

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The custom CSS stylesheets originally referenced were the css files utilized by the narrative web. Not any css files utilized to create and display the Gramps GUI.

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OK. Thanks. Just have to find the correct thread to move this to.

(It is a high class problem to have too much forum data to peruse.)