Gitea Modern
This style changes the layout of Gitea, and uses Gitea's color variables. It can be used with any theme that changes only colors.
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Note: The Stylus browser extension and Stylus preprocessor are two different things.
Usage as Gitea theme
To install the theme for all Gitea users:
- Make sure you're on the latest version of Gitea! (Working 1.15)
- Download the
theme-gitea-modern.cssfile and add it to your custom folder in$GITEA_CUSTOM/public/css/(learn how to find that directory).
- The path has changed in Gitea 1.15, there the file needs to be placed in
$GITEA_CUSTOM/public/assets/css
- Adapt your
app.inito make it the default theme or be user-selectable:-
To change the default theme, change the value of
DEFAULT_THEMEin the ui section ofapp.initogitea-modern -
To make a theme selectable by users in their profile settings, append
,gitea-modernto the list ofTHEMESin yourapp.ini.
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- Restart Gitea
- Enjoy :)
Usage with Stylus
If you use the Stylus browser extension, you can use the theme-gitea-modern.user.css file to apply to any Gitea instance.
Contributing
To make changes, always base them on theme-gitea-modern.styl, which requires the Stylus preprocessor.
When making contributions, don't use the compiled version for your changes.


