[crimesaucer]

Originally Posted by el mariachi can the panel's color be changed without touching the rest of the GTK theme? and font size too btw thanks urukrama! weird I don't have that applet... I'll dig into it.

This is how you can change your panel in xfce4:

Make a .gtkrc-2.0 and put it in your /home/folder

This is one that I used with the image "stripe_autum.png" when I was on xubuntu 7.04:

style "panel"
{
  bg[NORMAL] = "#595553"
  bg_pixmap[NORMAL] = "stripe_autum.png"
  fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF"
  }

widget_class "*Panel*"      style "panel"
widget "*Panel*"            style "panel"
class "*Panel*"             style "panel"

...then just put your image in your /home/folder along with your .gtkrc-2.0 file


Now if you just want a color change, then edit out the "bg_pixmap[NORMAL] part with the image...and just make your bg[NORMAL] the color you want it to be...and the fg[NORMAL] is your font color.


There are other ways to change the buttons, font size and other things, but I'm not sure because I was always doing it for panel image.