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Desktop icons description font color


I'm using GNOME 2.20. under Gentoo. I'd like to use a rather light 
wallpaper for my desktop. Unfortunately I can hardly see the desktop 
icon descriptions cause those are white. I can't find any way of 
changing the font color for those items. I'd really appreciate your help.
Best regards,
Marek

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Gianluca Borello | 27 Apr 10:45

Re: Desktop icons description font color

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Marek Kozlowski
<kozlowsm <at> mini.pw.edu.pl> wrote:
> 
>  I'm using GNOME 2.20. under Gentoo. I'd like to use a rather light
>  wallpaper for my desktop. Unfortunately I can hardly see the desktop
>  icon descriptions cause those are white. I can't find any way of
>  changing the font color for those items. I'd really appreciate your help.

You can do this by manually editing your ~/.gtkrc-2.0, or there is a
nice frontend called gnome-color-chooser
(http://www.punk-ass-bitch.org/gnome-color-chooser/)

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Marek Kozlowski | 27 Apr 12:35

Re: Re: Desktop icons description font color


I can change colors of most desktop elements, for example: font colors 
in menus, font colors in nautilus windows, font colors in terminals etc 
etc. Unfortunately it doesn't change the font color for icons on my 
desktop (Computer, user's home, Trash, ...). Can you more precisely 
describe what entries in .gtkrc-2.0 I need for them?
Best regards,
/M

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Gianluca Borello | 27 Apr 12:53

Re: Re: Desktop icons description font color

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Marek Kozlowski
<kozlowsm <at> mini.pw.edu.pl> wrote:

>  desktop (Computer, user's home, Trash, ...). Can you more precisely
>  describe what entries in .gtkrc-2.0 I need for them?

Try with:

style "desktop-icon"
{
NautilusIconContainer::frame_text = 1
text[NORMAL] = "#000000"
NautilusIconContainer::normal_alpha = 0
}
class "GtkWidget" style "desktop-icon"

Obviously you must replace #000000 with the color code you want, and
this should work.