HOWTO: Change Font Color in Gnome Panels

[aktiwers]

- THIS THREAD IS OUTDATED - It doesn't seam to work on newer versions of Ubuntu.

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:

include "/home/autocrosser/.gnome2/panel-fontrc"style "desktop-icon"

{
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"

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