I am quite new to Linux and am having a problem altering the colour of the text of my desktop icons. I think I'm using the Gnome Shell desktop environment. So far I have found some advice saying I should put a file in my personal folder named ".gtkrc-2.0" with the following code:
I changed the "text[NORMAL] = “#0099CC”" to read "text[NORMAL] = “#FFFFFF” which I think should have made the text white, but following a restart it hasn't worked.style “desktop-icon” {
NautilusIconContainer::frame_text = 1
text[NORMAL] = “#0099CC”
base[NORMAL] = “#000033″
NautilusIconContainer::normal_alpha = 150
}
widget_class “*DesktopIcon*” style “desktop-icon”
I then found some more advice:
Before I start messing around some more, and since I don't know how to find out what theme I'm using, I thought I'd come here for advice. Is there a simpler way to do this? It seems that if I can change the desktop background easily that changing the font text should be less complicated!You have to change the file: gnome-applications.css, located probably in /usr/share/themes/YOUR_THEME_NAME/gtk-3.0
CSS class responding to desktop icon text is .nautilus-desktop.nautilus-canvas-item.