How to change desktop icon font colors?

[otheos]

Anybody know? If I use a dark wallpaper I can't see them, and really hate the grey strip alternative.

Thanks

[otheos]

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[2thumbs]

Had the same problem in KDE2 :) took me a while to figure it out. Right click on the desktop and select "Configure Desktop". Click on the "appearance" button. You can change font colour there.

[jlany]

That would depend on which Window manager your running. For example, if you're using KDE, an opposite click of the mouse on the desktop will pop up a menu from which you can choose to configure the desktop and change the text color.

[otheos]

thanx for the replies, however I use gnome. any help here?

[Merciful]

Hi.

To change the desktop icon font color using Gnome try the following:

Right Click on the desktop and select 'Desktop Properties'
Select the 'Desktop' tab.
Enable 'Use shaped text' (this will get rid of the grey strip thing you referred to).
Click 'Apply' or 'OK'

Now open your favorite text editor and add the following lines:

##
style "gnome-desktop-icon" {
fg[NORMAL] = { 0.85, 0.85, 0.85 }
bg[NORMAL] = { 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 }
}

widget_class "*DesktopIcon*" style "gnome-desktop-icon"
##

Save the file in your home directory as: .gtkrc and restart Xwindows. You can use HEX RGB instead if you prefer. For example fg line would be:

fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF"

The first fg color example I gave you isn't a pure white as you'll see, it's sorta a dirty white. Anyways. Hope this helps.

Take care.