How do I change the background color when the Actions Panel Plugin is clicked

hosj · 2010-01-14 22:21:26

When I click the Actions Panel Plugin my screen goes transparent white and the Logout Restart Shutdown etc.. dialog comes up. How do you change the background color from white to black?? I have looked and can't figure it out. I downloaded the source and am lost. Does anyone know how to go about doing this?

Xfce: 4.6.1
Slackware 13

hosj · 2010-01-15 23:04:08

I finally tracked down where the color is set but know I am at a loss for how to change it.
I downloaded the source for Xfce and found it in xfce4-session/xfsm-fadeout.c on line 32

#define COLOR "#b6c4d7"

Does anyone know how I would go about changing the color in here and getting it to work?

s0ulslack · 2010-01-15 23:26:23

Black is #000000, but thats gonna be pretty dark... might wanna try a gray or something also, #BFBFBF. You should be able to find an HTML Color Chooser or something online.

hosj · 2010-01-20 03:51:49

After changing to #000000

etnlWings · 2010-01-20 12:28:39

s0ulslack wrote:

Black is #000000, but thats gonna be pretty dark... might wanna try a gray or something also, #BFBFBF. You should be able to find an HTML Color Chooser or something online.

Why would you bother? A good 1/4 of the apps on your system should have a colour picker.

That and hex codes are trivially easy to understand:
Colours are divided into #RRGGBB (Red, Green, Blue), with a numerical system that goes from 0-9,A-F.
Once you hit 09, the next value is 0A. Once you hit 0F, the next value is 10. As such, 00 is the lowest possible value, while FF is the highest.

Also, surely you can set a window match in your gtkrc? I'll have a play around and I'll see what I can finding. Having to edit the session manager source to change a colour is a little ridiculous.

hosj · 2010-01-20 20:16:57

I agree, having to edit the source was a little overboard but I couldn't figure out any other way to do it. I will look into using gtkrc to do it, thanks.

etnlWings · 2010-01-20 23:58:52

Actually, it doesn't look as if it's drawn using Gtk. I don't think it'll pick up any gtkrc matches.

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How do I change the background color when the Actions Panel Plugin is clicked

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