how to change colour of the tabs?

[alevikpes]

Hi! I am trying to change the colour of the tabs, particularly the contrast between the active and the passive tabs, since they look the same in my case. I do not see any option in the config for this. Is it possible to do at all? I use Ubuntu 18.04.

[mattrose]

The color of the tabs is controlled by the GTK theme. There is a strip at the base which changes color to try and hilight the active tab.

[alevikpes]

Thank you. I was able to change via the theme.

[pedroflor]

Thank you. I was able to change via the theme.

Hey @alevikpes ...
could you please show how you changed the colour of the tabs?
Thanks in advance.

[pedroflor]

@mattrose : could you please elaborate how to achieve the tab highlight?
Thanks a lot!

[lsem]

I think changing colors of the tabs in straightforward way would be great feature.
I used in iTerm and that is probably the only feature I miss from it in Terminator.

What do you think? Is there any reason why it should be in Terminator?

[pedroflor]

Not an issue, just a little help to anyone looking to change the visual of their TABs
Borrowed from:
https://www.preining.info/blog/2020/03/de-uglify-gtk3-tabs-of-terminals/
http://blog.nabam.net/workstation/2017/09/15/terminator_tabs/

@mattrose: Could you add an entry in Documentation?

Here is my config:
~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

/* Color of inactive TAB */
notebook tab {
    padding: 0.4em;
    border: 0;
    border-color: #444;
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 1px;
}

/* Color of active TAB */
notebook tab:checked {
    border-color: #76C802;
    border-width: 1px;
}

/* Color of text's TAB */
notebook tab:checked label {
    color: #ffffff;
    font-weight: 500;
}

/* Color of "x" close button */
notebook tab button {
    padding: 0;
    background-color: transparent;
    color: #ffffff
    border-width: 1px;
}

/* Color of "x" border's close button */
notebook tab button:hover {
  padding: 0;
  background-image: none;
  border-color: #00b0ff;
  border-style: solid;
  border-width: 1px;
}

Here is the resutl:

[mattrose]

Thanks so much for figuring this out. @pedroflor

[alevikpes]

Thank you. I was able to change via the theme.

Hey @alevikpes ...
could you please show how you changed the colour of the tabs?
Thanks in advance.

Hi! I installed the gnome tweaks, where they have a few extra themes for windows. It is not very detailed, but was good enough for me.