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alanfang
March 15th, 2009, 08:31 PM
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
March 16th, 2009, 12:01 AM
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
March 16th, 2009, 01:34 AM
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
March 16th, 2009, 01:51 AM
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
March 16th, 2009, 01:36 PM
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
March 16th, 2009, 09:48 PM
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
March 16th, 2009, 10:19 PM
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.
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