HOWTO: Change Font Color in Gnome Panels

[autocrosser]

This worked pretty well for me, I changed the colors of the main menu, the taskbar button items (not sure what those are called in linux) and the clock. However my username in the switch user tool is still black. It seems to be affected by the MenuItem style - is there no way to control this color separately?

Hmmm--That is a new addition to the panels and might be coded differently....I'll look into it. What is the menu popup speed like?

[autocrosser]

Ok--The fast-user-switch-applet uses GTK Dialogs, so I added the comment lines at the bottom of the gtkrc-2.0

Post back to see if that worked for you.


gtk-menu-popup-delay = 2

{
NautilusIconContainer::frame_text = 1
text[NORMAL] = "#000000"
NautilusIconContainer::normal_alpha = 70
}
class "GtkWidget" style "desktop-icon"

#NautilusIconContainer::dark_info_color="#888888"
#NautilusIconContainer::light_info_color="#bbbbbb"
#NautilusIconContainer::highlight_alpha=200

style "my_color"
{
fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF"
}
widget "*PanelWidget*" style "my_color"
widget "*PanelApplet*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*MenuItem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*ToolItem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*SeparatorMenuitem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*SeparatorToolitem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*ImageMenuitem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*RadioMenuitem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*CheckMenuitem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*TearoffMenuitem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*GtkDialog*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*GtkLabel*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*GtkRadioButton*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*GtkCheckButton*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*GtkLabel*" style "my_color"

[Arrgoss]

I feel lost...
I have followed the instructions of the first post, line by line, and nothing changed with my fonts... I've been reading the thread, but didn't find anyonw with the same problem. Am I missing something? How could I do it to check what is, or to give you some more info?


[EDIT] forget about my question, I saw the answer two posts above... shame on me

[Arrgoss]

It's me again... I could not fix the problem. I've tried with the first line, without the first line, with the delay... and I can't change the font color. This is my last trial

gtk-menu-popup-delay = 2

{
NautilusIconContainer::frame_text = 1
text[NORMAL] = "#000000"
NautilusIconContainer::normal_alpha = 70
}
class "GtkWidget" style "desktop-icon"

#NautilusIconContainer::dark_info_color="#888888"
#NautilusIconContainer::light_info_color="#bbbbbb"
#NautilusIconContainer::highlight_alpha=200

style "my_color"
{
fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF"
}
widget "*PanelWidget*" style "my_color"
widget "*PanelApplet*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*MenuItem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*ToolItem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*SeparatorMenuitem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*SeparatorToolitem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*ImageMenuitem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*RadioMenuitem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*CheckMenuitem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*TearoffMenuitem*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*GtkDialog*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*GtkLabel*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*GtkRadioButton*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*GtkCheckButton*" style "my_color"
widget_class "*GtkLabel*" style "my_color"

Can you hint me what am I doing wrong, please?

By the way, when I do

gedit .gtkrc-2.0

I get the following warning

/home/izeddin/.gtkrc-2.0:3: error: unexpected character `{', expected keyword - e.g. `style'

[Prium]

I have been looking around for a way to change the font color in the Gnome Panels. I found many ways, but non of them worked.

Finally I found a way it works for me in Edgy, so I will post a small howto do this below.

1)
In terminal write:

gedit .gtkrc-2.0

2)
An empty Text document will open, and you need to copy/paste this into it:


And save.


3)
Change the color code of: fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF"
To whatever you like, and the text in gnome panels will become that color.
I made the part you need to change red.


4) (optinal)
If you dont know the code for the color you want, you can use this little handy program.

In Terminal type:

sudo apt-get install gcolor2

And when you are done, type:

gcolor2

To open the program.

5)
Screenshots below, of my Gnome Panels with white text fonts. And one of the program gcolor2.

Good Luck!
Aktiwers

I found this thread after Googling, and it is exactly what I need!

One thing though - how do you get it to work???

I followed your instructions exactly as they are here. I mean I literally copied and pasted this text into gedit .gtkrc-2.0. All that happened was that menu text in active windows appeared white - as did the context menu text. I thought this was supposed to change the Gnome Panel text.....

[forelelyon]

is this for Ibex? it didnt work for me...

[aktiwers]

I think this thread is outdated.. I wrote it in January 9th, 2007.

I will update the main thread

[t0mmy9]

Sorry for bumping an old thread, but i can confirm that the first post on this topic works for me for the new ubuntu (9.04 jaunty jackalope)

I was searching for a way to do this for a while, this was really helpful.

[aktiwers]

Glad it worked, if more people test it in 9.04 and report back I might update the first thread

[fooman]

Glad it worked, if more people test it in 9.04 and report back I might update the first thread

seems to work fine on my jaunty 64 installation.

well, except for "applications - places - system" ....the drop down menus from those are the colors that i have chosen, but the words "applications - places - system" in the panel are still the default white.

anyway to get those to match the new colors as well??

thanks