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In case anyone is interested, if you save the following text file to your home directory
and name it ".gtkrc-2.0", then reboot xfce, suddenly the desktop looks amazing ...

Cheers

Dave



# this file should be placed in your home folder
# and name ".gtkrc-2.0"

style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {

#---------------------------------------------------------------
# Section "icon background and spacing"
#---------------------------------------------------------------

XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
XfdesktopIconVIew::cell-spacing = 1.5
XfdesktopIconView::cell-padding = 1.5
XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion = 2

#---------------------------------------------------------------
# Section "icon font colors"
#---------------------------------------------------------------

fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
fg[SELECTED] = "#ffffff"
fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff"

}

widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"

Oh forgot to mention, then change desktop icon size to 39ish ... have fun

Dave

kbmaniac wrote:In case anyone is interested, if you save the following text file to your home directory
and name it ".gtkrc-2.0", then reboot xfce, suddenly the desktop looks amazing ...

I'm interested, but do you have some screenshots to show what you mean be "suddenly the desktop looks amazing"?

I'm much more inclined to try when provided more information and assurance other than just telling me the candy is sweet.

Thank you,
Clinton

Yep thats a fair comment and 'amazing' is a subjective point of view .... I have always had an issue with the default spacing of the desktop icons and the look of the icon text ... anyhow here is a screenshot of my desktop

Let me know what you think

Cheers

Dave

Many thanks, I was trying to tweak these settings myself, until I got tired. Now the icons' text is human readable on dark wallpapers, at last