Change Font Colour in Gnome Panels

January 9, 2007 · General · Email This Post

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Open your terminal and edit this file

vi .gtkrc-2.02

An empty Text document will open, and you need to copy/paste the following lines

include “/home/autocrosser/.gnome2/panel-fontrc”style “desktop-icon”
{
NautilusIconContainer::frame_text = 1
text[NORMAL] = “#000000″
NautilusIconContainer::normal_alpha = 70
}
class “GtkWidget” style “desktop-icon”

#NautilusIconContainer::dark_info_color=”#888888″
#NautilusIconContainer::light_info_color=”#bbbbbb”
#NautilusIconContainer::highlight_alpha=200

style “my_color”
{
fg[NORMAL] = “#000000″
}
widget “*PanelWidget*” style “my_color”
widget “*PanelApplet*” style “my_color”
widget_class “*MenuItem*” style “my_color”
widget_class “*ToolItem*” style “my_color”
widget_class “*SeparatorMenuitem*” style “my_color”
widget_class “*SeparatorToolitem*” style “my_color”
widget_class “*ImageMenuitem*” style “my_color”
widget_class “*RadioMenuitem*” style “my_color”
widget_class “*CheckMenuitem*” style “my_color”
widget_class “*TearoffMenuitem*” style “my_color”

save and exit the file

Change the color code of: fg[NORMAL] = “#000000″

To whatever you like, and the text in gnome panels will become that color.

If you dont know the code for the color you want, you can use this little handy program.

sudo apt-get install gcolor2

If you want to access this program use the following command

gcolor2

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7 Comments to “Change Font Colour in Gnome Panels”

1. Matthew Page says:

   March 21, 2007 at 6:01 pm

   Do you know a way to change the background/foreground colors of the terminal from the command line? For Xterms you can use escape sequences like :

   echo “33]11;#febf7207″;

   any way to do this in terminal?

   matt

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2. giacomok says:

   April 4, 2008 at 10:54 am

   it’s possible to change color’s font panel in gutsy ?
   /home/autocrosser/.gnome2/panel-fontrc”style “desktop-icon seems to be invalid in ubuntu 7.10
   I’m sorry for bad english
   thanks

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3. justdroppingin says:

   March 20, 2009 at 11:10 pm

   apt-get install gnome-color-chooser

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4. jon says:

   March 28, 2009 at 12:36 pm

   the gnome color chooser works great!!!

   Thanks

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5. rfry11 says:

   April 11, 2009 at 11:19 am

   justdroppingin’s install code is valid, the gnome color chooser does work in Intrepid.
   For all the newcomers to Ubuntu, though, here’s the correct code:
   sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser
   Can’t forget the good ‘ole sudo command

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6. ninja says:

   May 8, 2009 at 7:34 am

   I tried this and its still not working, is it cause im on 9.04? I had it working on gutsy and i thought i recalled calling a comman like killallpanels or something? thanks

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7. x3qt0r says:

   July 18, 2009 at 8:20 pm

   I love linux :p
   and i love :
   sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser
   :p

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