RE: how do I change the colour of the icon text on my desktop

[Mart van de Wege <wege34 zonnet nl>]

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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:01:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kervin Pierre <kervinpierre yahoo com>
To: gnome-list gnome org
Subject: how do I change the colour of the icon text on my desktop

Hello,

How do I change the colour of the icon text on my
desktop?  You know, the text that labels what the
icon's for?

I've looked at gmc->settings->preferences->desktop,
but the option is not there.

-Kervin

Andy Smith posted a solution about a month ago:
> I have this in my ~/.gtkrc:
>
>    style "gnome-desktop-icon" {
>      fg[NORMAL] = { 0.85, 0.85, 0.85 }
>      bg[NORMAL] = { 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 }
>    }
>
>    widget_class "*DesktopIcon*" style "gnome-desktop-icon"
>
> Change the fg[NORMAL] to the colour you want, with each
channel going
> from 0.0 to 1.0.  If you change your GTK theme from the control
centre
> it might overwrite this, I'm not sure how careful it is.
>
>     Andy

Hope this helps,

Mart van de Wege