How to change font colors on the Gnome panel in Ubuntu Gutsy and Feisty
October 11, 2007 by tibor
These are the steps for Gutsy (See bottom for Feisty)
If these steps don’t work for you check out the TROUBLESHOOTING section at the very bottom of the page, please.
1. Alt+F2
2. gedit ~/.gtkrc-2.0
3. Insert the following 1 line below:
include “/home/<user_name>/.gnome2/panel-fontrc”
3-Remark: In the path above change the <user_name> value to whatever your username is, for example: include “/home/tibor/.gnome2/panel-fontrc”
4. Save, Close
5. Alt+F2
6. gedit /home/<user_name>/.gnome2/panel-fontrc
6-Remark: Same applies to <user_name> as in 3-Remark
7. Insert the following 6 lines below:
style “my_color”
{
fg[NORMAL] = “#4353b6″
}
widget “*PanelWidget*” style “my_color”
widget “*PanelApplet*” style “my_color”
8. Save, Close
9. Alt+F2
10. killall gnome-panel
Explanations:
The fg[NORMAL] = “#4353b6″ line’s #4353b6 hex value represents your font color on the panel.
To find hex values of colors just run the gcolor2 utility. Once you picked your preferred color just change the hex code in fg[NORMAL] = “#??????” and save the file and do another killall gnome-panel. Which is steps 5-10
This information originally appeared in a posting at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66879
For Feisty I have tested and confirmed the directions here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=219001&highlight=change+color+of+clock
TROUBLESHOOTING
1. Update: 10/18/2007
I found that when I copy / pasted the above code from this page into the 2 configuration text files that we created with gedit that I had to delete and redo all of the ” quotation mark symbols to make things work.
