# Change colors and customize

**URL:** <https://forum.pydio.com/t/change-colors-and-customize/1011>\
**Category:** Pydio 8\
**Tags:** centos\
**Created:** [April 16, 2018, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/change-colors-and-customize/1011 "2018-04-16T09:53:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![derbode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb9ed0/32.png) [@derbode](https://forum.pydio.com/u/derbode)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/change-colors-and-customize/1011/1 "2018-04-16T09:53:30Z")

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#CentOS #css #Server

Hi everone,

I installed a private pydio instance with the community edition and want to change some Colors/CSS attributes. I noticed that the material theme is located on /usr/share/pydio/plugins/gui.ajax/res/themes (in my CentOS 7 Server).

I played around with the CSS and the .less files. But changes did not take effect.

What should I do to change some colors and/or attributes?

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**Author:** ![zayn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a87d85/32.png) [@zayn](https://forum.pydio.com/u/zayn)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 10:24am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/change-colors-and-customize/1011/2 "2018-04-16T10:24:24Z")

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Hi,  
you can use this post that might have hints about what you’re looking for

> [@Including own css-file via action plugin](https://forum.pydio.com/t/including-own-css-file-via-action-plugin/442):
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> Hi! In the past with pydio6, I’ve always took the action.skeletion plugin as base to include my own css-file. Pretty simple, just renamed the skeleton-occuranced and added something like: \<template name="head" element="ajxp\_desktop" position="top"\>\<![CDATA[\<link rel="stylesheet" href="plugins/action.css/res/css/screen.css" /\>]]\>\</template\> in the manifest.xml. I’m trying this now with pydio 8 and can’t get it to work. Is this css-add still possible or do I need to upgrade to the enterpris…

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**Author:** ![derbode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb9ed0/32.png) [@derbode](https://forum.pydio.com/u/derbode)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/change-colors-and-customize/1011/3 "2018-04-16T12:18:32Z")

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Hi, thanks a lot for your answer. This seems to be one way. But when I take a look inside the sourcecode, I see, that the header-toolbar-row (for example) has inline css-style. So I think it would be easyer to change the color directly in the global variable - I think the CSS is generated from the .less files…