[SOLVED] Get a stroke font on the desktop

pato wlmc · 08-03-2010, 02:54 PM

Well, let me explain my self ( i'll try since English is not my native language, so if you just don't get it please tell me )

What i want to do is to have a stroke around my desktop font ( a black one ) since my screen wallpaper is kind of gray and the texts on it get really invisible.

I would like to know if i can do this only on the desktop fonts, since everything else looks fine.

I know it's really a hell of a lot easier to just change my wallpaper ( or edit it in GIMP ) but my moto on Linux has always been "If it can be done, why don't do it" ( I hope is sounds good in English too )

So if there is a way plese let me not, if not, i'll just edit my wallpaper

qweasd · 08-03-2010, 03:49 PM

Are you using Gnome, KDE, or some other window manager or desktop environment?

pato wlmc · 08-03-2010, 11:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by qweasd

Are you using Gnome, KDE, or some other window manager or desktop environment?

Yeao, sorry if i forgot to mencion that.

I'm using Gnome

qweasd · 08-04-2010, 02:22 AM

While it may be not exactly what you wanted, there is a way to change the bg color there. From here: create ~/.gtkrc-2.0 if it does not exist yet and add this in the end:

Code:

style "desktop-icon"
{
 text[NORMAL] = "#000000"
 NautilusIconContainer::frame_text = 1
 NautilusIconContainer::normal_alpha = 100 
}
class "GtkWidget" style "desktop-icon"

The first style field is the text color (rgb hex). It works fine on my Gnome without this line. The second one is a mandatory 1, and the last one is the alpha for the background, which will be transparent at 0 and solid white (?) at 255.

Save the file and killall nautilus to see the changes.

pato wlmc · 08-05-2010, 02:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by qweasd

While it may be not exactly what you wanted, there is a way to change the bg color there. From here: create ~/.gtkrc-2.0 if it does not exist yet and add this in the end:

Code:

style "desktop-icon"
{
 text[NORMAL] = "#000000"
 NautilusIconContainer::frame_text = 1
 NautilusIconContainer::normal_alpha = 100 
}
class "GtkWidget" style "desktop-icon"

The first style field is the text color (rgb hex). It works fine on my Gnome without this line. The second one is a mandatory 1, and the last one is the alpha for the background, which will be transparent at 0 and solid white (?) at 255.

Save the file and killall nautilus to see the changes.

Wow! Thanks man. Certainly it wasn't exactly what i was looking for, but it works as well, or even better.

And actually i can try to get theme bold or something.

Thanks again