Porting pre-1.4.0 themes to 1.7.0

[DaveDavenport]

The very old theme format (that was deprecated in 1.4.0 with the introduction of the new theming engine.). There was some 'hackish' conversion code in old rofi versions, that now has been removed as it became to difficult to maintain.

The old format used: color-normal, color-urgent, color-active, color-window. This format was based on i3.

To convert this will take a bit more effort.

[DaveDavenport]

If you still use this very old setup and have not upgraded yet, use the following procedure to upgrade.

You need to run 1.6.1 or older to be able to parse the old format.

First copy the old configuration to the new format:

rofi -dump-config > newconfig.rasi

Append the old theme:

rofi -dump-theme >> newconfig.rasi

You can test this using:

rofi -config newconfig.rasi -show run

This might not be a perfect conversion. (see other topics in this discussion form).

Then you can copy the config into ~/.config/rofi/config.rasi and upgrade rofi.

[SolsticeSpectrum]

color-window, color-normal and hide-scrollbar does not exist.

[DaveDavenport]

???

[SolsticeSpectrum]

It is all different now. Nothing works at all. How do I make rofi fullscreen like it used to be?

[SolsticeSpectrum]

Also it has totally different proportions

[SolsticeSpectrum]

Not even fullscreen exists

[DaveDavenport]

Fullscreen still exists, if you read the rofi-theme manpage you see it is property on the window.

window {
   fullscreen: true;
}

There is a rofi-theme manpage and there have been several topics on this and I suspect the information can be found there.

We might be able to help if you ask a question instead of dropping in random remarks.

[stevenengler]

I had luck using an old theme generator at https://comfoxx.github.io/rofi-old-generator/p11-Generator.html, where you can enter the colors from your color-normal, color-urgent, etc and output a generated rasi config. The only change I also needed was to add the following, for reasons unknown to me.

element-text {
    background-color: inherit;
    text-color: inherit;
}

Edit: Also there's a bug with alternate-normal-foreground where it is defined twice, and one of them should have been named alternate-normal-background instead. Also there's a border-color: @foreground which should have been border-color: @bordercolor. You may also want a #listview { scrollbar: true; }.