Desktop icons font color almost invisible, yet quite unchangeable

luther7hrol · 2014-11-05 16:15:37

I'm using Cinnamon desktop environment on my freshly installed Arch system. The only thing which could not be done, whichever method I tried,
is the font color of the desktop icons. It persists being dark greyish without having shadow which would contrast to the text. It seems like
there is no such an option which would make it possible to change this, neither in any part of Cinnamon's system settings, nor in Nautilus/Nemo which
is to be responsible for drawing desktop icons and its font, as far as I remember. I tried playing with the current themes such as editing one of its files:
.themes/Zorin8-White/gtk-3.0/apps/nautilus.css and changing the

.nautilus-desktop.nautilus-canvas-item {
        color: @bg_color;
        text-shadow: 1px 1px alpha (#000000, 0.8);

to

.nautilus-desktop.nautilus-canvas-item {
        color: @bg_color;
        text-shadow: 1px 1px alpha (#FFFFFF, 0.8);

and even adding such few lines for Nemo in the end of the same file but looks like nothing helps and font color won't change no matter what.
Changing and combining themes always leaves the desktop font color the same, almost invisible grey which is hard to read and very irritable.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thx :-)

Last edited by luther7hrol (2014-11-05 16:19:14)

City-busz · 2014-11-23 00:23:50

Now I fixed this problem for the default Adwaita theme in nemo 2.4.3-1. Other themes should be fixed one by one. You can use the Adwaita.css file as a template (color variable names may differ): https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … kages/nemo

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#1 2014-11-05 16:15:37

Desktop icons font color almost invisible, yet quite unchangeable

#2 2014-11-23 00:23:50

Re: Desktop icons font color almost invisible, yet quite unchangeable

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