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giampi

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Registered: 2006-12-26

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Transparency of the rounded box in desktop icons

I'm using Debian Etch RC1 with Xfce4. I'm very much pleased with it but I'd like to get rid of the rounded background of desktop icon text. Is there a way to control the opacity (transparency) of this background? I'm sure it can be done, because I've seen on http://www.xfce-look.org/ many themes in which icon text is completely transparent. I've read the Xfce manual and I've googled on this topic. I've also follow the advice on http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/xfdesktop/trunk/README, but it did not work for me. What I'm missing?

Thank in advance for help,
gianpi

accunta

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Registered: 2007-08-18

Posts: 3

Re: Transparency of the rounded box in desktop icons

anyone find a solution to this? I too would like to remove the rounded rectangles from icon text.

Nick

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Re: Transparency of the rounded box in desktop icons

It's actually a PNG image, so you can probably change that.

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mike555

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Registered: 2011-08-01

Posts: 18

Re: Transparency of the rounded box in desktop icons

I'm using Xubuntu , but found that if I make a text file with this in it;
#desktop icon transparency tweak
style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
    XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0

    base[NORMAL] = "#000000"
    base[SELECTED] = "#000000"
    base[ACTIVE] = "#000000"

    fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
    fg[SELECTED] = "#ffffff"
    fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff"

and save it as gtkrc , and as root put it in the Etc/gtk2.0 folder ,then log off & back in , the icon text background is transparent .
I wonder why the Dev's don't do it for us ???

Thanks to " Toz" on the Ubuntu forums for this........

Last edited by mike555 (2012-03-03 17:59:50)

secipolla

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 393

Re: Transparency of the rounded box in desktop icons

It's on the README for xfdesktop: http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/tree/README
When I translated it there were some entries about setting the transparency but maybe it was decided that it would clutter the GUI settings tool for it and so it remained as a 'hidden' option.