SOLVED: Enabling transparent desktop icons on XFCE desktop
Monday, September 23rd, 2013 at 6:02 pm
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Another quick and dirty XFCE desktop hack, this one to add transparent icon backgrounds to your desktop icons.
If you’re tired of looking at ugly icon label backgrounds, and really want transparent backgrounds, the fix is simple!
Here’s the code:
style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
## opacity of text background (0 - 255, 0 = transparent)
XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
XfdesktopIconView::selected-label-alpha = 100
## text background colors
base[NORMAL] = "#edeceb"
base[ACTIVE] = shade (0.8, "#86abd9")
base[SELECTED] = "#86abd9"
## text foreground colors
fg[NORMAL] = shade (0.9, "#ffffff")
fg[ACTIVE] = shade (0.8, "#ffffff")
fg[SELECTED] = "#ffffff"
}
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"
Just add this snippet to your “~/.gtkrc-2.0” file, kill xfdesktop (or log out and back in), and you’re all set!