Zorin 18 Disable Out of Focus Window Dimming

[GThib]

Greetings,

How to achieve the effect in the Subject?

It completely make useless any possibility to use eyedropper or a colour picker to choose a exact colour from the screen object.

Thank you in advance

[Forpli]

I found this older thread. I'm not at the computer in the moment but you could try this:

Disable window dimming when focus is lost

Hi, I have a problem with what seems to be a feature, and I'd like to disable it. When I use multiple windows (terminal windows for example), when a window loses focus it dims, making it difficult to read text. I use multiple monitors, and I'd like to be able to read text from multiple windows at the same time without straining my eyes. Is there a way to disable this dim-on-lost-focus feature?

[GThib]

Thank you.

[Forpli]

Did you find a way to do it? I tried the solutions of the linked thread with Zorin 18 live stick, but they didn´t work.
I looked what is the content for .background of my used Zorin blue light theme gtk 3.0 and put it into a file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
at
.background:backdrop
I did the same for gtk 4.0 of my Zorin theme (there were other contents) and
put it into a file ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css at
.background:backdrop

It didn´t work. Then I tried with
window.background.backdrop
but didn´t change anything.

Then I edited the Zorin theme at /usr/share/themes/ZorinBlue-Light directly and copied the content of background to background.backdrop, but it didn´t help.

I'm at a loss what could help to solve this.

[Forpli]

Now I found a way, that unfocused windows are better readable
but this changes the appearance of the windows considerably. I'm not sure if you like this. There is less dimming as in normal mode.

You can go to Accessibility > Seeing
and enable "High contrast"

Perhaps it would also be sufficient for your purposes to simply change the window focus at Zorin appearance > Windows > Focus and select there "Focus on Hover" or "Focus Follows Mouse"

[Aravisian]

What if tested on a different Theme than a Zorin Theme?

[Forpli]

I haven't tried that yet.
Maybe I tested it with the wrong apps. I only opened nautilus and settings for testing the window appearance of focused and inactive windows.

[Forpli]

I just tested it with another theme (Sunrise GTK Theme). It looks completely different there. Only the topbar text is dimmed when the focus get lost and the window is a little bit darker. So you could test different themes if you find ones that don't dimm the window or not completely. The Sunrise Theme doesn't contain gtk 4.0 css so it is not suitable for gtk 4.0 apps.
Editing the css file of the theme didn't make the same look for focused and non focused windows...I'm not sure if I make something wrong.

[Aravisian]

So, it looks like the backdrop property needs to be applied more universally on the classes.