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The Arrangement and Clip view shading gets on my nerves, especially because I often use odd time signatures and lots of odd key signature changes. With these the shading does not align with the bar lines and is just a distraction.
I found this in another post, instructions on how to disable this shading feature. I used this procedure successfully in Ableton 11, but I cannot make it work in Ableton 12, despite successfully locating and changing the text in both Windows and Mac.
Any suggestions?
Here are the instructions I followed,

"You can disable the alternating color in the theme file.
Make a copy of the theme you use the most (so it's not overwritten when Live updates).
Open the file in a text editor, search for the tag ArrangerGridTiles and set its value to zero.
You can do the same for the clip detail view by adjusting DetailGridTiles.

The location of the theme files on Windows is C:\ProgramData\Ableton\Live 11 Suite\Resources\Themes
(change 'Suite' to the Live version you are using. )

On MacOS, go to the Applications folder, right or ctrl click on the Live app, and select ‘Show Package Contents’. Then head to Content > App Resources > Themes."

For the sake of completeness, I also include the solution here in case setting the values to zero doesn't resolve the issue.

Both tags have a value of 8 characters. The last two are for transparency. If you set those two to 00, the shading is completely transparent/invisible. The higher the last two numbers, the more opaque/visible the shading becomes.
Example: Further details in viewtopic.php?p=1836516#p1836516

Yes, it's working fine now on Ableton 12.
It's so much nicer for me to not have the shading, although I understand that some users might find it useful.
Thanks again Purpletea.