[SOLVED] Change clock/buttons color XFCE4 ?

[onikage]

Hey guys,
I'm trying to make something of a theme of my own with xfce4:
Screen: http://prikachi.com/images/564/5512564N.png

I made the panels black, but as you can see the buttons in both panels retained the default color. Plus both the clock and the Mageia logo are still black and thus unreadable.

What I want to do:
1. Make buttons black as well.
2. Make clock, logo and button font white so they can be readable on a black background.

How can I make this ? Thanks in advance.

[doktor5000]

Maybe grab some theme from http://xfce-look.org and take a look at how it is done there?
Or have a look in their forum? http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=7295
You can also use pretty much any guide that handles customizing or creating your own GTK theme, AFAIK.

[onikage]

Someone on another forum suggested to right click the clock module:
Properties=>Set format to "Custom Format"=>Edit the code

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<span color="#000000">%R</span>


However when I try to write in the format box, nothing happens. Any ideas why ?

[winstonteacox]

Changing font color of panel (to white in this example).

Have a look at .gtkrc-2.0 in your home-folder. It should contain the line

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include "/home/YOURUSER/.gtkrc.mine"

If yes, ok. If not, attach this line.


Now create a new document and name it .gtkrc.mine

It should have the following content:

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style "panel"
{
    fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF"
}

widget_class "*Panel*"      style "panel"
widget "*Panel*"            style "panel"
class "*Panel*"             style "panel"


Save .gtkrc.mine in your home folder.

So you have always a white (#FFFFF) font with the XFC-Panel.

Hope I could help.
cheers,
Bernd

[onikage]

Sound really helpful, only I don't have a .gtkrc-2.0 in ~/

[doktor5000]

Well, then create one containing that line mentioned before ...

[onikage]

Well, then create one containing that line mentioned before ...

Ok, that worked quite well. Thanks