I use dark desktop and transparent panel. The panel text was black and hardly visible. I found this recipe to change the panel text color - works for me (originally posted at http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/i ... 63372.html, but needs little customization of the terminal command):
Create a file called .gtkrc-2.0 in your ~ (home user) directory with the following contents.
style "panel"
{
fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
# fg[PRELIGHT] = "#000000"
# fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff"
# fg[SELECTED] = "#000000"
# fg[INSENSITIVE] = "#8A857C"
# bg[NORMAL] = "#000000"
# bg[PRELIGHT] = "#dfdfdf"
# bg[ACTIVE] = "#D0D0D0"
# bg[SELECTED] = "#D8BB75"
# bg[INSENSITIVE] = "#EFEFEF"
# base[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
# base[PRELIGHT] = "#EFEFEF"
# base[ACTIVE] = "#D0D0D0"
# base[SELECTED] = "#DAB566"
# base[INSENSITIVE] = "#E8E8E8"
# text[NORMAL] = "#161616"
# text[PRELIGHT] = "#000000"
# text[ACTIVE] = "#000000"
# text[SELECTED] = "#ffffff"
# text[INSENSITIVE] = "#8A857C"
}
widget "*PanelWidget*" style "panel"
widget "*PanelApplet*" style "panel"
class "*Panel*" style "panel"
widget_class "*Mail*" style "panel"
class "*notif*" style "panel"
class "*Notif*" style "panel"
class "*Tray*" style "panel"
class "*tray*" style "panel"
The color of the font is set in the fg[NORMAL] field (for example ffffff is white)
When you've saved the file then in a terminal type:-
killall mate-panel
this should restart the panel and change to your selected font colour.
[SOLVED] How to Change Mate Panel Color Text to White
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[SOLVED] How to Change Mate Panel Color Text to White
Last edited by vistad on Sat Jun 04, 2016 7:25 am, edited 1 time in total.
Linux Mint Mate 21.2 64, fanless box with passive cooling
Re: How to Change Mate Panel Color Text to White
However language descriptor (like 'en') stays black. May be someone finds out, how to make it white too.
Linux Mint Mate 21.2 64, fanless box with passive cooling
Re: How to Change Mate Panel Color Text to White
I found this wayvistad wrote:However language descriptor (like 'en') stays black. May be someone finds out, how to make it white too.
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sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
dconf-editor
You should see a few keys, one of them named "foreground-color" which is hex (set #FFFFFF - for white color), and defaults to #000000 (black color).