Desktop Font Question

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ontarioca

Desktop Font Question

Post by ontarioca »

I have looked high and low for an answer to this question and I thought I had come close a couple of times, but still no luck.

I would like to change the font of the folders on my desktop to white so I can see them against a dark background. As it is right now the letters are blackish-grey and when the wallpaper is dark I can;t see anything. I've been to usr/share/theme/ambience/apps/gtk3.0/nautilus and tried to paste in a few commands I've found online, but nothing has worked. White is #ffffff.

I have tried using the GNOME Color Chooser and the Tweak Tool as well.

I am currently running Ubuntu 14.04, Cinnamon 2.2.16, Linux Kernal 3.13.0-37

Is this a Nemo versus Nautilus thing? I upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 so I think I should have Nautilus as the file manager.

I really thought this would be an easy thing to do :/

Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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ontarioca

Re: Desktop Font Question

Post by ontarioca »

Or as an alternative can anyone suggest a theme which has white fonts for folders on the desktop? Every theme I've tried keeps the fonts that same dark colour.

Thanks again for any suggestions.
LesStrater

Re: Desktop Font Question

Post by LesStrater »

Not white, but the standard "Linux Mint" theme has very light gray text on a dark background.
caribriz

Re: Desktop Font Question

Post by caribriz »

Have you tried this - scroll down to Zorba's tip 2 -

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=165545

Create the nemo.css file
Edit gtk-main.css to reference the nemo.css file

Logout/in.

:?:
ontarioca

Re: Desktop Font Question

Post by ontarioca »

I tried the instructions from Zorba's post without any luck. Perhaps I did something wrong so I'll try it again. Can anyone confirm if using Adobe Dreamweaver is the best way to go to make a .css file? Or can I simply use Gedit and save that file and insert it in the proper place and change the other file to make it recognize the .css file?

Thanks.
caribriz

Re: Desktop Font Question

Post by caribriz »

ontarioca wrote:I tried the instructions from Zorba's post without any luck. Perhaps I did something wrong so I'll try it again. Can anyone confirm if using Adobe Dreamweaver is the best way to go to make a .css file? Or can I simply use Gedit and save that file and insert it in the proper place and change the other file to make it recognize the .css file?
Sorry, I don't know what else to try.

You can use gedit to save the file as .css.
ontarioca

Re: Desktop Font Question

Post by ontarioca »

Thanks Caribriz, I appreciate your effort and assistance.
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