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Hamish

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From: Rural Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2013-02-26

Posts: 46

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(SOLVED) xfdesktop - how to restore old icon text backgrounds?

After upgrading to xfdesktop 4.13.3-1 I no longer have the previously default icon text backgrounds.

Old / New:

I know I seem to be in the minority on this, but I actually preferred the old look and would like to restore it if possible.

In the past it was possible to control the icon text background by having a custom gtkrc-2.0 as documented here:
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/advanced

But since the most recent version is based on GTK3 I can no longer see how this would be possible. I previously modified the gtkrc file that came with my Zukitwo theme in order to maintain the default icon text backgrounds.

Am I just going to have to get used to the new look or is it still possible to restore the old default behaviour?

Last edited by Hamish (2019-03-11 16:14:29)

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Thank you,
Hamish Paul Wilson

toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

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Re: (SOLVED) xfdesktop - how to restore old icon text backgrounds?

Try a gtk snippet like this (add it to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css - create the file if it doesn't exist):

/* xfdesktop GTK3 theming */
/* default view */
XfdesktopIconView.view {
  background: #9bb1b3;
  color: #3c3f3f;
  text-shadow: 0 0px 0px black;
  text-decoration-color: black;
  border-radius: 5px; }

/* view when icon selected */  
XfdesktopIconView.view:active {
  background: rgba(60, 69, 70, 0.3);
  text-shadow: 0 1px 1px black; }

/* label when icon selected */
XfdesktopIconView.label:active {
	background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.3);
	color: white;}

/* drag box */
XfdesktopIconView.view .rubberband {
   border-color: #9bb1b3;
   background-color: rgba(60, 69, 70, 0.5);
  border-radius: 0; }

Adjust the colors as required.

Last edited by toz (2019-03-11 11:04:10)

Hamish

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From: Rural Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2013-02-26

Posts: 46

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Re: (SOLVED) xfdesktop - how to restore old icon text backgrounds?

Cheers toz, that worked perfectly. Thanks for the help.

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Thank you,
Hamish Paul Wilson