Changing font color of the panel

[jozmak]

Hi,

I've changed the panel color of my Gnome desktop to dark gray and would like to change the 'Applications, Places and System' as well as the 'Date' font colors to white or light gray. How should I go about doing that?

Thanks,
J. Mak

[Nasso]

i have been looking for a solution to this too, anyone?

[nosami]

Check this http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...ght=font+color page out

[agapito]

I have a faster way to do it. Try this:
In ~/.gtkrc-2.0 insert this line

include "/home/<user_name>/.gnome2/panel-fontrc"

then create the file panel-fontrc in .gnome2, which consists of the following lines:

style "my_color"
{
fg[NORMAL] = "#4353b6"
}
widget "*PanelWidget*" style "my_color"
widget "*PanelApplet*" style "my_color"

and that's it. All you have to do is choose the color and do a killall gnome-panel. The second "widget" line affects only the applets and the first one does the rest.
To chose the color you can use the color select dialog in GIMP or, even better, use this:
http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/
it allows you to pick colors from anywhare in the gnome desktop. It compiled smothly in Hoary.

Have fun!

[nikolaiortiz]

ok.. i made the file..
but nothing happens
please some help...

[KittyChunk]

Just a note - if .gtkrc-2.0 doesn't exist (as it didn't in my install of 7.10), you need to create it. There are a couple of other similar-looking .gtkrc-XXX files in the home dir, but using them won't work.