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xendistar

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Registered: 2011-11-07

Posts: 28

How do you chnage the desktop font colour??

How do you change the Desktop icon font colour?

A quick google suggests that you change the code in either .gtkrc-xfce or\and .gtkrc-2.0 I have the following text in both files

style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0

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

That should mean the text is white, but my text is black

I am running XFCE 4.10

Any thoughts?

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,494

Re: How do you chnage the desktop font colour??

Well this is interesting. It would appear that if the theme already defines a style by the same name ("xfdesktop-icon-view"), then you can't overwrite it. I didn't know that.

Try renaming "xfdesktop-icon-view" to "my-xfdesktop-icon-view" (for example) and it should work. You'll have to make the change in two places in your snippet.

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Mark7

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Registered: 2007-10-05

Posts: 119

Re: How do you chnage the desktop font colour??

It worked for me

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,494

Re: How do you chnage the desktop font colour??

It worked for me

Try it with a theme that already defines an "xfdesktop-icon-view" style like Greybird or Numix. It won't overwrite the existing style definition.

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