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jskier

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From: Minnesota, USA

Registered: 2003-07-30

Posts: 383

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Change font style of icon desktop text in XFCE

I'm trying to get bold fonts for my desktop icon text on the XFCE desktop (may not be possible?). I see I can do a custom size, but not a different font or style without changing the fonts system-wide (which I don't want to do). Is there a way to change the desktop font style just for the desktop? I've tweaked gtkrc to make the font have a shadow and remove the elliptical background of the text (making it transparent), but haven't found anything online aside from changing colors (http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/advanced) to do what I'm trying to accomplish.

gtkrc modifications:

cat .gtkrc-xfce
style "xfdesktop-icon-view" { 
    XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0 
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-label-alpha = 170 
    XfdesktopIconVIew::ellipsize-icon-labels = 1 

    XfdesktopIconView::shadow-x-offset = 1
    XfdesktopIconView::shadow-y-offset = 1 
    XfdesktopIconView::shadow-color = "#000000" 
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-x-offset = 0
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-y-offset = 0 
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-color = "#ffffff" 

    XfdesktopIconVIew::cell-spacing = 6 
    XfdesktopIconView::cell-padding = 6 
    XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion = 2.5 

    base[NORMAL] = "#cccccc" 
    base[SELECTED] = "#cccccc" 
    base[ACTIVE] = "#cccccc" 

    fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff" 
    fg[SELECTED] = "#000000" 
    fg[ACTIVE] = "#000000" 
} 
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"

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JSkier

ubunchu

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Registered: 2012-05-01

Posts: 181

Re: Change font style of icon desktop text in XFCE

I usually use lxappearance, though for more control there is "obconf". But maybe that only works for openbox. (for others as well?)
Though I'm not sure which Window Manager and desktop manager you use. (pure xfce? xfwm+xfdesktop? openbox+xfdesktop?) [try checking out the wiki or manual on the components you're using, not in general like xfce] {i mean: checking the manual for xfwm or openbox, depending on what you use}
Good luck, cheers!

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jskier

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From: Minnesota, USA

Registered: 2003-07-30

Posts: 383

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Re: Change font style of icon desktop text in XFCE

I usually use lxappearance, though for more control there is "obconf". But maybe that only works for openbox. (for others as well?)
Though I'm not sure which Window Manager and desktop manager you use. (pure xfce? xfwm+xfdesktop? openbox+xfdesktop?) [try checking out the wiki or manual on the components you're using, not in general like xfce] {i mean: checking the manual for xfwm or openbox, depending on what you use}
Good luck, cheers!

I'm using xfwm+xfdesktop, the wiki, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce#Desktop, covers what I've done so far, but not changing the fonts.

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JSkier