Changing panel text colors

[alanfang]

Is there a way to change the color of the text on just panels? Also, is there a way to customise what the panels look like when you hover over them etc? Thanks for the help.

[m_duck]

The former can be done using "gnome-color-chooser" - I believe that's what the package is called and it lets you choose the colours/fonts etc of various parts of gnome individually.

As for the latter, I think that's written in with the theme so check out gnome look for a whole load.

[alanfang]

Thanks, does anyone know of a pre compiled package for gnome color chooser? I can't seem to get it to install from source.

[s.fox]

Hi,

I started a thread on the same topic about 5misn ago. :D LINK (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1097299)

I have been able to set the font colour of the panel. AS for the colour choser try gcolour2.


sudo apt-get install gcolor2

then


gcolor2

hope this helps.

-Ash R

[m_duck]

As far as I know, gcolor2 is just a program to find what colours are by clicking on them?

Have you tried installing gnome-color-chooser from the repo's? Either open Synaptic (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager) and search for it or from the terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal)
sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooserThe former method is probably better just in case I have got the name wrong.

[alanfang]

Okay I got gnome color chooser installed. It worked great for changing the text colors. Is there a way to change the background color of a selected item in the panel? Right now it seems to be stuck on the ubuntu default.

[m_duck]

As far as I'm aware I think that the theme in use determines the backgrounds of selected items etc. If that isn't the case, I'm not sure how to change it - perhaps a line in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 - but really, I've no idea. Hope I've been of some use.