[SOLVED] gnome panel font color

[vikramaditya]

I've modified my gnome panels to a dark blue and would now like white fonts on it. I've installed the gnome color chooser thingy, but it does not appear to support that function. Also tried creating, modifying, & saving to my home folder a gtkrc-2.0 file, but nothing's changed. does anyone know an easy way to get white fonts to appear on the panels? :confused:

[vikramaditya]

*bump*...anyone?

[mcduck]

Did you name the fiel as "gtkrc-2.0" or ".gtkrc-2.0". The dot in the beginning is important.

Also, did you try logging out and back again after creating the file?

The following piece of code (in ~/.gtkrc-2.0) should definitely change the panel text color:
style "panel"
{
fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
}

widget "*PanelWidget*" style "panel"
widget "*PanelApplet*" style "panel"

[vikramaditya]

Thanks, mcduck :) I tried again with the .gtkrc-2.0 file, but the sonofawhore just won't work. However, I finally found a tutorial (right here in the forums!) that shows how to do it using the gnome color chooser thingy. The app would benefit from a less ambiguous menu, but everything's cool now. Note the XP style panels . . . :)

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb264/Ginchiest/whitefonts.png