Very happy with my MX16 setup but a couple of tweaks evade me.
Is it possible to modify the desktop icon text to eliminate the "box"? In Mint one could edit gtkrc-2.0 and gtkrc-xfce which are hidden in the home folder.
I feel that I have asked this before - perhaps as far back as MX14 - but can't trace it, though believe the reply was along the lines of MX Xfce is organised differently!
In similar vein, I liked the cosmetic improvement in Win7 with open windows showing in the taskbar as uniformed sized icon buttons (and quicklaunch apps on launch becoming a button rather than being repeated in the taskbar). This could be emulated in WinXP with a simple registry edit (though not the quicklaunch bit!). Is such a tweak possible in MX? I know there are Mac style add-ons such as DockBar but not really what I'm looking for especially as they seem to be a supplement rather than replacement and, anyway, quite happy otherwise with the default MX taskbar!
Desktop Icon Text
Re: Desktop Icon Text
Try this:- in gtkrc-2.0 in home folderTenderFoot wrote:Very happy with my MX16 setup but a couple of tweaks evade me.
Is it possible to modify the desktop icon text to eliminate the "box"? In Mint one could edit gtkrc-2.0 and gtkrc-xfce which are hidden in the home folder.
I feel that I have asked this before - perhaps as far back as MX14 - but can't trace it, though believe the reply was along the lines of MX Xfce is organised differently!
In similar vein, I liked the cosmetic improvement in Win7 with open windows showing in the taskbar as uniformed sized icon buttons (and quicklaunch apps on launch becoming a button rather than being repeated in the taskbar). This could be emulated in WinXP with a simple registry edit (though not the quicklaunch bit!). Is such a tweak possible in MX? I know there are Mac style add-ons such as DockBar but not really what I'm looking for especially as they seem to be a supplement rather than replacement and, anyway, quite happy otherwise with the default MX taskbar!
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style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
base[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
base[SELECTED] = "#5D97D1"
base[ACTIVE] = "#5D97D1"
fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
fg[SELECTED] = "#ffffff"
fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff"
}
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"
For MAc like taskbar dwonload plank and search for plank themes in google you will find 100 plank themes download it and it has mac like docky
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Re: Desktop Icon Text
But as I said, whilst I know the required tweaks, there is no gtkrc-2.0 in the home folder in MX and am not sure that creating one would do the trick.Try this:- in gtkrc-2.0 in home folder
I'll have a look!...dwonload plank...
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Re: Desktop Icon Text
its .gtkrc-2.0, and yes you can create it if its not present.
http://www.youtube.com/runwiththedolphin
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FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.
lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 - MX-23
FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.
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Re: Desktop Icon Text
Thanks. Copied from Mint and that seems to have done the trick!
Not, sure about Plank as research indicates that it is more a dock for open apps and possibly quicklaunch but not system tray? I wonder if DockbarX plugin for Xfce might be what I crave...
Not, sure about Plank as research indicates that it is more a dock for open apps and possibly quicklaunch but not system tray? I wonder if DockbarX plugin for Xfce might be what I crave...
Re: Desktop Icon Text
Hello what you have replaced could you paste the code here ??TenderFoot wrote:Thanks. Copied from Mint and that seems to have done the trick!
Not, sure about Plank as research indicates that it is more a dock for open apps and possibly quicklaunch but not system tray? I wonder if DockbarX plugin for Xfce might be what I crave...
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Re: Desktop Icon Text
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include ".gtkrc-xfce"
#style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
#XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
#Text colors you can delete these if you want you use gtk theme colors
#fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
#fg[SELECTED] = "#00ff00"
#fg[ACTIVE] = "#000000"
#}
#widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"
style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
## opacity of text background (0 - 255, 0 = transparent)
XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
XfdesktopIconView::selected-label-alpha = 100
## text background colors
base[NORMAL] = "#EDECEB"
base[ACTIVE] = shade (0.8, "#86ABD9")
base[SELECTED] = "#86ABD9"
## text foreground colors
fg[NORMAL] = shade (0.9, "#FFFFFF")
fg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.8, "#FFFFFF")
fg[SELECTED] = "#FFFFFF"
## whether or not unselected icon text gets truncated (...)
# XfdesktopIconVIew::ellipsize-icon-labels = 1
## text shadow to be painted with the icon labels
XfdesktopIconView::shadow-x-offset = 1
XfdesktopIconView::shadow-y-offset = 1
XfdesktopIconView::shadow-color = "#000000"
XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-x-offset = 1
XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-y-offset = 1
XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-color = "#ffffff"
## spacing and sizing of icons on the grid
XfdesktopIconVIew::cell-spacing = 4
XfdesktopIconView::cell-padding = 4
XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion = 1.8
}
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"
If you want more (or less) icons on the desktop you can mess around with the values in the "## spacing and sizing" section. We're talking decimal point differences - I've dropped the spacing and padding to 3 and may try 2.5.
[PS it is not usually necessary to quote the whole of a previous post].