Customizing Xfce (5)

Playing with Xfce : part 5, Change Desktop Icon Text Color

Make sure to have a look to :

• Customizing Xfce (4) : sensors plugin
• Customizing Xfce (3) : Battery plugin
• Customizing Xfce (2) : Shortcuts
• Customizing Xfce (1) : Panels

Today we wanted a dark Wallpaper,as a consequence, the black Icon text was unreadable...

As we still wanted to keep Mint-X theme, changing theme wouldn't help, but here is a way to only change Desktop specific icon text : 

find .gtkrc-2.0 and .gtkrc-xfce in your home folder (use ctrl+h to display these hidden files) if they do not exist, then create them :)

in .gtkrc-2.0 you should find 

(if you created the file by yourself copy-paste this : include ".gtkrc-xfce" )

in .gtkrc-xfce, you may find something like this : 

What you want is the following to get white letters when icon is unselected (we choosed white BG when selected so kept black font) : 

style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {     XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0 #background colors     base[NORMAL] = "#C5C5C5"     base[SELECTED] = "#C5C5C5"     base[ACTIVE] = "#C5C5C5" #foreground colors     fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF"     fg[SELECTED] = "#000000"     fg[ACTIVE] = "#000000" } widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"

we now have a dark wallpaper and white icon text : 

Enjoy ! 

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