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sonycdr

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Registered: 2009-01-30

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Suggestion for desktop icons

I suggest the ability to change the text style of the desktop icons (font, colors, shadows etc...) from the Settings->Desktop window

jskier

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From: Minnesota, USA

Registered: 2013-01-19

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Re: Suggestion for desktop icons

+1. I like my desktop icon font style to be different than the theme, but haven't been able to change them, even with the gtkrc file. This file only adds shadows, changes some transparency, and colors- cannot modify font or font style of the desktop at all without changing the whole theme.

LXDE has this option- which I use on some lightweight machines but prefer to stick with XFCE for most boxes

ozjd

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From: Hawkesbury NSW Australia

Registered: 2012-02-05

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Re: Suggestion for desktop icons

+1. I like my desktop icon font style to be different than the theme, but haven't been able to change them, even with the gtkrc file. This file only adds shadows, changes some transparency, and colors- cannot modify font or font style of the desktop at all without changing the whole theme.

LXDE has this option- which I use on some lightweight machines but prefer to stick with XFCE for most boxes

You can change it in ~/.gtkrc-2.0, you need a section like this

style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
    XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 75
    font_name="DejaVu Sans"

    base[NORMAL] = "#00ff00"
    base[SELECTED] = "#5050ff"
    base[ACTIVE] = "#0000ff"

    fg[NORMAL] = "#ff0000"
    fg[SELECTED] = "#ff0000"
    fg[ACTIVE] = "#ff0000"
}
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"

note line 3,

jskier

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From: Minnesota, USA

Registered: 2013-01-19

Posts: 8

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Re: Suggestion for desktop icons

Perfect, that works like a charm. Still would be helpful to have a gui, but I'm fine with importing my tweaked xfce gtkrc file.

For those interested in a similar set up:

style "xfdesktop-icon-view" { 
    XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
    font_name="Liberation Sans Bold"
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-label-alpha = 170 
    XfdesktopIconVIew::ellipsize-icon-labels = 1 

    XfdesktopIconView::shadow-x-offset = 1
    XfdesktopIconView::shadow-y-offset = 1 
    XfdesktopIconView::shadow-color = "#000000" 
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-x-offset = 0
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-y-offset = 0 
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-color = "#ffffff" 

    XfdesktopIconVIew::cell-spacing = 6 
    XfdesktopIconView::cell-padding = 6 
    XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion = 2.0 

    base[NORMAL] = "#cccccc" 
    base[SELECTED] = "#cccccc" 
    base[ACTIVE] = "#cccccc" 

    fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" 
    fg[SELECTED] = "#000000" 
    fg[ACTIVE] = "#000000" 
} 
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"