Hover text on panel is black, need white (SOLVED)

[choochooal]

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When I hover any running program or app etc on the panel in Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon, the text explanation like "firefox" or "banshee" shows up above the panel in black. Great but my wallpaper is black (or rather dark) and I can't see the text.
Also if I'm editing the text on a desktop icon, its normally white on blue (theme color) but when I hit F2 to rename the icon the text turns black again. It's the same thing, maybe the same setting but at least the same effect.
I've been all over several cinnamon.css files looking for any kinda setting.

[caribriz]

Hi choochooal,

I was going to respond in this other thread:
[url]http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=149147#p781509[/url]
but will do it here instead ...

I'm not sure why, but I had to copy/paste a section of another theme's cinnamon.css file to get this to work in the theme from the other thread -
Ambiance-Minty-2.

In the cinnamon.css file of Ambiance-Minty-2, I "commented out" the StTooltip StLabel section of the file, and pasted this text under it:

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#Tooltip {
	color: #ffffff;
	background-gradient-direction: vertical;
	background-gradient-start: #648fb3;
        background-gradient-end: #446bae;	
	border: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
	border-radius: 3px;
	padding: 3px 10px;
	font-weight: normal;
	text-align: center;
}

That section of cinnamon.css for Ambiance-Minty-2 now looks like this:

cinnamon.css-in-Ambiance-Minty-2.png

Saved the file, logged out/in.

The panel tooltips in the theme now look like this:

cinnamon-Ambiance-Minty-2.png

If you didn't want the tooltips to have a background color, again comment out the StTooltip StLabel section and just put these lines under that section instead:

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#Tooltip {
	color: #ffffff;
	font-weight: normal;
	text-align: center;
}

Again, save the file, logout/in.

To get this:

Ambiance-Minty-2-with-white-panel-tooltips.png

Unfortunately, I don't know how to fix the other problem of the editing of desktop icon text color - except to say that I think it's not a cinnamon theme
(cinnamon.css) problem, but it's part of the gtk3 theme, the "Controls" theme you choose.

I think you would have to add a "desktop-mode" section to the file nemo.css in the /gtk-3.0/apps/nemo.css of your chosen gtk3 theme.
.... but I have had no luck with this myself.

[choochooal]

Thanks a lot. This is close enough to get me in the ballpark. I can experiment and get what I want, I'm sure. Thanks again.
And it works like a charm. White with black background! Perfect for my needs!. I'll log this in my "tweaks" doc. I log every tweak I do when I install, so if I do a fresh upgrade I know where and what to do to get everything back to my desires. Backups are good but system updates can possibly overwrite files.