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Change colors - XFCE icon text and text background

I am trying out the XFCE desktop on Ubuntu (xubuntu).
I am very impressed with its speed! \m/

How do you change the color of the text and text background for the desktop icons?

Right now I have black icon text, on a gray patch, on a black desktop.

It looks quite ghetto.

Quote:

...silence...

i did it! \m/ :) \m/

Answer:

i edited the .gtkrc-2.0 file in my /home/user_name folder and added the bolded part at the end:

Code:

# This file was written by KDE

# You can edit it in the KDE control center, under "GTK Styles and Fonts"



include "/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"



style "user-font"

{

        font_name="DejaVu Sans 9"

}

widget_class "*" style "user-font"



gtk-theme-name="Clearlooks"

gtk-font-name="DejaVu Sans 9"



# this is the new part added by bgryderclock



style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {

    XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 75



    base[NORMAL] = "#000000"

    base[SELECTED] = "#000000"

    base[ACTIVE] = "#000000"



    fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"

    fg[SELECTED] = "#ffffff"

    fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff"

}

widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"

Nice job, this worked for me too, thank you for following up and posting how you did this.

Ultimate Transparency for XCF4

Building on the above answer I found the following builds truly transparent backgrounds with highlighted text for active and clicked.

I tested this on a Compiz-Fusion fade I am working on and it works perfectly.

I found the code on this guy's page which has a couple other neat updates that I am using. I will respond with a link since this is my first post.

Code:

style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {

XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0



#Text colors you can delete these if you want you use gtk theme colors

fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"

fg[SELECTED] = "#00ff00"

fg[ACTIVE] = "#0000ff"



}

widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"

Truly one of my favorite threads

Great link ty very much.

This got me thinking what else could be done with the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file

It turns out alot!

See below for my current tweaks, which is nice as I can change some stuff on the fly without having to su and change the /usr/share/theme files.

Mind you, my "QA" for this is "it works for me" so keep that in mind :D

Code:

# this file should be placed in your home folder

# and name ".gtkrc-2.0"



#---------------------------------------------------------------

# Section "icon background colors"

#---------------------------------------------------------------

# The following two lines *should* be left uncommented

# if we want the XFCE desktop icon backgrounds to use

# alpha blending (e.g. invisible or some % thereof)



style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {

XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0







#---------------------------------------------------------------

# Section "icon font colors"

#---------------------------------------------------------------



# The next three lines deal with the color of the desktop icon's

# text. You can comment them out if you want you use gtk theme

# colors. Below yields white un-selected normal, green selected,

# and blue when going to another window

#

# I chose three different colors so that you can see the level

# of customization we can do.



fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"        #this is white

fg[SELECTED] = "#00ff00"      # this is green

fg[ACTIVE] = "#0000ff"        # this is blue



## my blue fonts to use with nuvola theme & royal blue WM

# environment. a soft shark underbelly blue color if you will.

#fg[NORMAL] = "#528AC6"

#fg[SELECTED] = "#528AC6"

#fg[ACTIVE] = "#528AC6"



}

widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"







#---------------------------------------------------------------

# Section "xfce panel colors"

#---------------------------------------------------------------



# Use these to change the panel color.  Note this should

# be commented out entirely if you decide to use 

# Section "xfce panel background" below.



#style "panel"

#{

#this one here is grey

#bg[NORMAL] = "#909599"

# use this with nuvola theme

#bg[NORMAL] = "#64AEE0"

#xthickness = 0

#ythickness = 0

#}

#

#widget_class "*Panel*" style "panel"

#widget "*Panel*" style "panel"

#class "*Panel*" style "panel"







#---------------------------------------------------------------

# Section "xfce panel background"

#---------------------------------------------------------------



style "panel"

{

bg_pixmap[NORMAL] = "Panel/panel-bg.png"

}



# note I simply have a folder in my home called "Panel"

# with the file "panel-bg.png" in it. not sure if you 

# can hard code that to somewhere else.



widget_class "*Panel*" style "panel"

widget "*Panel*" style "panel"

class "*Panel*" style "panel"

widget_class "*List*"              style "colored"

class "*List*"                    style "colored"

widget_class "*Text*"              style "colored"

class "*Text*"                    style "colored"

widget_class "*Entry*"            style "colored"

class "*Entry*"                    style "colored"







#---------------------------------------------------------------

# Section "xfce icon fallback theme"

#---------------------------------------------------------------

#

# this is our fallback icon theme in case we launch 

# thunar in KDE or XFCE can't find an icon for your theme

# for some icon for some reason.

# a safe default is "Rodent" as it comes with Slackware 12's XFCE



gtk-icon-theme-name = "Etiquette Xfce"

xfce panel font color

can i change the font color on the xfce panel?
i have a black panel and dark gray text so i can barely read anything on my panel.