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As it seems the color green is default color of Ubuntu MATE. Highlighted text is in green, bars are in green, etc... How do I change it to something other?

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From top left corner go to System - Preferences - Appearance. (You can go through Control Center, as well )

From there go to Themes menu and click on the "Customize" button on the lower right corner of the window.

Go to Colours tab and have fun:

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Thanks, but it doesnt change all the colours. Let's say highlighted songs in Rythmbox are still in green. How do I change this? – Matjaž Jerman Nov 26 '15 at 19:54
    
You will have to change the whole theme. Just try choosing another theme. – Muzaffar Nov 27 '15 at 0:11
    
But I like this one, only the green color I dislike. So no other options? – Matjaž Jerman Nov 27 '15 at 19:12
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As Muzaffar suggests, you can change the 'Selected items' background color when customizing theme.

However some greens won't disappear only just because of this setting, some GTK+3 objects remain green.

I followed this post.

What you have to do is to copy /usr/share/themes/Ambiant-MATE to: ~/.themes/Ambiant-MATE (or an other theme, if you want, ex.: Radiant-MATE)

Then inside these files:

  • gtk-3.0/gtk-main.css
  • gtk-3.0/settings.ini
  • gtk-2.0/gtkrc

Replace #87A752 (Ubuntu MATE's green) with #F17949 (Ubuntu's Orange), and re-log in for changes to take effect.

But it still wasn't enough for me, because progressbars and checkboxes remained green. Then I found the gtk-3.0/assets folder. There, I had to manually change the color of every single greenish asset with Gimp. I used the Hue-Saturation tool with the following parameters:

Hue: -50
Lightness: 6
Saturation: 68

This gave me brownish-orangish items, not quite like the modern default ubuntu orange, but much better than the mate-green. I think it's similar to the old color scheme from the ubuntu 8-era. If you play a bit with that numbers, you might get a better result.

Note: I'm using Ubuntu Mate 16.04 however it's very likely that it works for 15.10 as well

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Update

I simply copied the assets from a normal Ubuntu 16.04 installation. Now, every single control looks the same as in Unity.

Here you can download both Ambiance and Radiance themes. You have to copy the gtk-3.0/assets folder.

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The linked file in Google Drive has been configured to not allow downloading for viewers. Is that on purpose? Google Drive Details view for the linked file says Download Permission Viewers cannot download. – Mikko Rantalainen Oct 5 '16 at 6:50
    
@MikkoRantalainen That's definitely not on purpose. Have you tried to download it while signed in with a gmail account? – balping Oct 6 '16 at 12:23
    
Yeah, I even added it to my Google Drive but I still cannot get it to work. It's kind of weird that I can add that .tar.gz to my drive but I still cannot get any file out from the package. All I can do is see list of files inside the package. – Mikko Rantalainen Oct 10 '16 at 5:12
    
According to Google Drive UI it has been shared as "Anyone: can view" and "Download Permission: Viewers cannot download". – Mikko Rantalainen Oct 10 '16 at 5:14
    
@MikkoRantalainen Should be downloadable now. Thanks for your help – balping Oct 10 '16 at 12:14

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