Gnome Clock & Applets Font Color

[Bob Chiodini]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 05:24 +0300, Ali Helmy wrote:
> On 02/05/06, Bob Chiodini <rchiodin at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 22:31 +0300, Ali Helmy wrote:
>         > On 02/05/06, Bob Chiodini <rchiodin at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>         >         On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 19:35 +0300, Ali Helmy wrote: 
>         >         > On 01/05/06, Bob Chiodini <rchiodin at bellsouth.net>
>         wrote:
>         >         >         On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 12:48 +0300, Ali
>         Helmy wrote:
>         >         >         > Hey lads, 
>         >         >         >
>         >         >         > My background image is mostly black, and
>         I have
>         >         the
>         >         >         gnome-panel color
>         >         >         > set to transparent most of the time, or
>         when its a 
>         >         solid
>         >         >         color, its
>         >         >         > black, so I have a problem, which is
>         that all
>         >         gnome applets
>         >         >         [clock,
>         >         >         > weather, etc] use a black font to print
>         their 
>         >         text, which
>         >         >         obviously,
>         >         >         > doesn't show on the black panel...
>         >         >         >
>         >         >         > So is there some way I can edit the font
>         the 
>         >         panel-applets
>         >         >         use to
>         >         >         > display text [say turn it into white for
>         example]
>         >         so that I
>         >         >         can easily
>         >         >         > read them on my black panel? 
>         >         >         >
>         >         >         > --
>         >         >         > Cheers,
>         >         >         >      A. Helmy
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >         Ali, 
>         >         >
>         >         >         Good morning, sorry to hear that the auto
>         hide
>         >         failed to
>         >         >         stick, not sure
>         >         >         what that's all about.
>         >         >
>         >         >         I had the same problem concerning the
>         applet font
>         >         colors.  I
>         >         >         did some
>         >         >         googling and came up with this: 
>         >         >
>         >         >         create a file called .gtkrc-2.0 in your
>         home
>         >         directory that
>         >         >         contains:
>         >         >
>         >         >         style "panel_color" 
>         >         >         {
>         >         >            fg[NORMAL] = "#b4ff7b"
>         >         >         }
>         >         >         widget "*PanelWidget*" style "panel_color"
>         >         >         widget "*PanelApplet*clock*" style
>         "panel_color"
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >         I could not find the specific resources,
>         thus the
>         >         wild 
>         >         >         cards.  The color
>         >         >         definition is slightly green of yellow.  I
>         used one
>         >         of the
>         >         >         color-picker
>         >         >         apps to get the value. 
>         >         >
>         >         >         You'll need to log off and back on to see
>         the
>         >         changes.
>         >         >
>         >         >         Bob...
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >
>         >         > Thanks for the help mate, but... what should I
>         insert
>         >         instead of the
>         >         > wild cards?
>         >         >
>         >         > --
>         >         > Cheers,
>         >         >      A. Helmy
>         >
>         >         Ali,
>         >
>         >         I could not find the specific resources, but
>         *PanelWidget* and
>         >         *PanelApplet*clock* get the clock applet and the
>         items next to 
>         >         the the
>         >         Red Hat.
>         >
>         >         See attached.  Is this what you're trying to do?
>         >
>         >         Bob...
>         >
>         >
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>         >
>         >
>         > Yes that's exactly what I'm trying to do... But I still
>         don't know
>         > what to replace the wild cards with
>         >
>         > --
>         > Cheers,
>         >      A. Helmy
>         
>         Ali,
>         
>         I think I'm missing something, you can use them as they
>         are.  I haven't
>         noticed any adverse affects.  I suspect that *PanelWidget* and
>         *PanelApplet*clock* are very close to the actual resource
>         names.  The
>         source code is about the only place I can think to look. 
>         
>         Bob...
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> Ok, so I did what you suggested and modified the Clock text color...
> any idea whay line i should add in order to control the Gnome Weather
> applet?
> 

Ali,

No I don't, but you could try:

 widget "*PanelApplet*weather*" style

Bob...