theme skin

[katsu1110]

Thanks for a great repos. Is there a way to change the color skin (e.g. minimal_mistakes_skin) from the default?

[katsu1110]

I kind of made it work, by disabling 'assets' by putting 'assets' into the exclude list in the _config.yml.
If you do it, you can change the skin of your website by putting the following on top of everything in the _config.yml

plugins:

• jekyll-remote-theme
  remote_theme : "mmistakes/minimal-mistakes"
  minimal_mistakes_skin : "dark" # "air", "aqua", "contrast", "dark", "dirt", "neon", "mint", "plum", "sunrise"

[derekpowell]

I'd like to try this out, could you write that code in a code block?

[katsu1110]

Oh yes, sure

simply add the following in the beginning of your "_config.yml"

plugins:
  - jekyll-remote-theme
remote_theme           : "mmistakes/minimal-mistakes"
minimal_mistakes_skin    : "dark" # "air", "aqua", "contrast", "dark", "dirt", "neon", "mint", "plum", "sunrise"

Then just put 'assets' in the list of 'exclude' in the "_config.yml" to disable all the css.

# Reading Files
include:
  - .htaccess
  - _pages
  - files
exclude:
  - "*.sublime-project"
  - "*.sublime-workspace"
  - .asset-cache
  - .bundle
  - .jekyll-assets-cache
  - .sass-cache
  - assets`

Once you push it, your website should have a 'dark' skin with little loss of the format:)

[anebz]

Tried it, the skin is indeed dark but the sidebar is pushed all the way to the left and the navbar on top is slightly disfigured, @katsu1110 is this what you mean by little loss of the format? :) or is there something I'm missing?

Edit: I found the official configuration page where it says the only necessary thing to do is add:

minimal_mistakes_skin: "dark"

but it's not working for me.

[katsu1110]

@anebz Exactly, this is what I meant. For this academic pages, it seems that there are some unique changes in css from the original minimal_mistakes, which prevent us from changing the theme easily.

[nicklalone]

It's a shame that your method of doing it seems to remove all iconography on the profile page. I wonder which asset specifically is blocking the theme content.

[anebz]

Exactly, especially since it's supposed to be a simple one line addition, according to the documentation.

[eisenjulian]

Was anyone able to make this work?

[anebz]

I wasn't :(

[datasumowrestler]

Had the same problem. This worked for me:
https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/issues/1339

In _config.yml, add/ edit the following:
url: "https://vg.github.io"

[bensdm]

can you detail please?

[mrsandeshbhat]

I was able to change the theme of my academic pages website using the color values listed in the _sass/skins/dark.scss file into the _variables.css file as can be seen here

my _variables.scss file can be viewed here

[anebz]

Thanks so much @mrsandeshbhat ! It worked 😎