By leonardo.ruffini on

Garland's color picker vanishes when setting files system download method to private, so I'm trying to directly modify style.css on garland-8bce0beb directory (as you may know, Garland creates a random directory name when yo modify the default theme with the color picker)

But it is impossible to save it after editing it! It is even impossible to change permissions!

Does anybody know a way of changing this?

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MariaY’s picture

MariaY commented

Perhaps the color picker vanished if you have the wrong permissions in the files/color directory. I think it has to be 777. Also, if you can't edit the style.css it may be because you have css caching enabled under admin/settings/performance. Try turning off caching.

Good luck!

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leonardo.ruffini commented

Thank you, but it didn't work... :(

I don't have css caching enabled and I cannot change permissions of the files/color directory, although I can change permissions of files in the files/ directory. I think this may be related to having set files to private, but I don't want to turn it back to public because it is not recommended to do so once the website is running...

Any other ideas?

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djsnapshot commented

I have a similar problem. I can't make any changes to the style.css file in the color folder after I've made any color changes to garland. It seems every time I want to make changes to the style.css file, I first have to reset the colors to their default settings, go back to the original style.css location and make then changes, then re-enter the colors I had set before.

How can I change permissions on the new location of the style.css file so that I can make changes to it there? It won't let me change any of the permissions when I try to myself.

Help?

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Sophia commented

I have finally managed to do it. There might be an easer way, but this one works, garantueed! Just remember to follow these steps exactly!

1. First select the color scheme you wish to use in administor/site building/themes.
2. Then, use an ftp program to copy all the files in files/color/garlandxxxx to your local drive.
3. After that, locally make all the changes you want for the css file, such as color, additional images, etc etc etc.
4. Then, upload this css file to the directoy files/color/garlandxxx
5. After that, go to administrator/site building/ themes once more and save your color scheme ones again (yes, this step is necessary!)
6. Finally, upload your css file one more time (necessary too).

You're done! All changed should be visible now! If not, try Control/F5!

Ack after reading your post once again, I don't think this is what you asked at all... Sorry about that!

Perhaps this will help somebody else though.

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gurukripa commented

the problem is that the folder or any file cannot be uploaded to the site..why is this?
u describe uploading it twice..i cant upload a single file even once.
thanks

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kesmeby commented

This sort of works for me, but whenever I change the color of the header or link text and re-save the color scheme it shifts the colors. I presume because it tries to choose a color to compliment the others you've chosen. I could live with the link color it chooses, but I need to change the header color.

I may have to set an overriding style.

any more advice is appreciated.

thanks,

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kesmeby commented

It's still pretty convoluted but try this:

  1. Make the changes in Garland that you can from its interface and "Save Configuration"
  2. dowload the style.css file this makes in your "files" folder
  3. copy the contents of the downloaded style.css file and paste it into the style.css file that lives in the original garland theme directory
  4. paste this code at the top of the file:

    /******************************************
    * Color Module: Don't touch *
    ******************************************/

  5. Make any further changes you need to to this stylesheet and upload it
  6. Go back to the Garland config screen and "Save Configuration" again. This time it won't change anything in the CSS file you uploaded but just copy it from the original Garland theme to the "files" directory version it creates
  7. Anytime you want to edit the CSS open the new original style.css from the main garland theme. Edit. Upload. Go to Theme, Garland, Configure. Save Configuration.

That should do it. I got what I was looking for anyway.

I hope this helps someone else too.

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dcomfort commented

This is a little late answer to this forum, but I had the same problems with permissions after I use the color module and Drupal creates a separate folder in files called something lke "garland-494fee67." I cannot seem to change the permissions in this folder. In addition, it appears that style.css in the garland-xxxxxxxx folder is the last to be imported so you need to make changes to this style.css and not garland. A solution is to make changes to the style.css in the garland folder and then save the minnelli theme again. This way appears to copy the style.css from garland to minnelli folder. I've copied the whole garland folder to sites/all/themes/. This seems to work. I am sure there are other methods to override but this works.

David Comfort