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Thunderblurred

A blurred transparent CSS theme for Thunderbird. You need a compositor to have the blur effect.

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How to

Quick install for the linux lads

  1. Run
$ bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/manilarome/thunderblurred/master/install.sh)"
  1. After the confirmation message that the theme is successfully installed, open thunderbird. You'll notice that it is still not transparent. To fix this, Open Menu > Customize > Change the theme to Dark.

NOTE

Manual Installation

  1. Open the Thunderbird Menu located on the top-right corner with a humburger menu(three horizontal lines).
  2. Select Preferences, then Preferences again.
  3. Go to Advanced, find the Config Editor button then press it.
  4. A dialog will warn you, but ignore it, just do it press the I accept the risk! button.
  5. Search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets, layers.acceleration.force-enabled, gfx.webrender.all, and svg.context-properties.content.enabled. Make sure to enable them all!
  6. Go to your thunderbird profile located in $HOME/.thunderbird/XXXXXXX.default-release/.
  7. Create a folder and name it chrome, then assuming that you already clone this repo, just copy the theme to chrome folder.
  8. Finally, change the Thunderbird theme from default to dark. This is important!

Note

If there's no blur effect

  1. Make sure you have a compositor with blur support running!

If you're using Plasma and there's no blur effect,

  1. Enable the blur in your compositor. Go to System Settings > Desktop Effects > Enable Blur. Note that this will not enable the blur effect on all applications.

  2. Enable the blur effect on all applications by installing a KWin script called Force Blur.

  3. Go to System Settings > KWin Scripts > Enable Force Blur.

If you're using Windows or Mac and something's wrong

  1. I can't test it right now because I only have arch btw.

TODOs: