Desktop Icons

[JmaCWQ]

Hello All,

Just curious if it's possible to remove the shading of the name text of everything on the desktop unless it's selected?
And if it's possible to not use the grid for icon alignment but put them where I want?

Using LL 2.0 with PCManFM 1.2.0 instead of Thunar.

I do apologise if this has been covered on the forum, I can't find it if it has.

Thanks 

[rijnsma]

Some appearances in 'settings' do it without.
There are themes etc. in the repo, that is how I did it this time.

But:
I didn't try in LL and don't know if it still works, but this is how I did it for some years in Xfce:

Xfce desktop icons
Here is ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file stoat posted some time back for setting the Xfce desktop icon background opacity
to zero so the text "cartouche" box disappears (full transparency).
Code:

style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
    XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
    XfdesktopIconView:elected-label-alpha = 170
    XfdesktopIconVIew::ellipsize-icon-labels = 1

    XfdesktopIconView:hadow-x-offset = 0
    XfdesktopIconView:hadow-y-offset = 0
    XfdesktopIconView:hadow-color = "#000000"
    XfdesktopIconView:elected-shadow-x-offset = 0
    XfdesktopIconView:elected-shadow-y-offset = 0
    XfdesktopIconView:elected-shadow-color = "#ffffff"

    XfdesktopIconVIew::cell-spacing = 6
    XfdesktopIconView::cell-padding = 6
    XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion = 2.5

    base[NORMAL] = "#cccccc"
    base[SELECTED] = "#cccccc"
    base[ACTIVE] = "#cccccc"

    fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
    fg[SELECTED] = "#000000"
    fg[ACTIVE] = "#000000"
}
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"

[JmaCWQ]

Thank you rijnsma,
For the transparency with the Desktop icon text that works perfectly.
I did try other themes from the repo's before asking but none of them seemed to make any difference to that, even after loggin out and back in after each theme change.
None of the themes appear to turn off the grid the icons align to either.

Just a little extra info for anyone who's not sure, on LL 2.0 the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file is hidden in your home folder.
Leave a single line free under whatever is in that file, then paste in the following:

Code:

style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
    XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-label-alpha = 170
    XfdesktopIconVIew::ellipsize-icon-labels = 1

    XfdesktopIconView::shadow-x-offset = 0
    XfdesktopIconView::shadow-y-offset = 0
    XfdesktopIconView::shadow-color = "#000000"
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-x-offset = 0
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-y-offset = 0
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-color = "#ffffff"

    XfdesktopIconVIew::cell-spacing = 6
    XfdesktopIconView::cell-padding = 6
    XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion = 2.5

    base[NORMAL] = "#cccccc"
    base[SELECTED] = "#cccccc"
    base[ACTIVE] = "#cccccc"

    fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
    fg[SELECTED] = "#000000"
    fg[ACTIVE] = "#000000"
}
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"

Save and close the file, log out and back in again.

[rijnsma]

Nice to hear it works JmaCWQ.

(I use 'Raleigh' here and 'Human' for the icons. And else this code of course.
But I also have had in a distro that the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file was not present or pointed to some other file. )

And thanks for your supplement.

[JmaCWQ]

You're welcome 

I'm using in the Appearance settings a modified Shiki-Brave style and Humanity Dark icons.
And in the Window manager on the Style tab the Kokodi Theme.

I increased the scrollbar width in the Shiki-Brave theme is the only mod I've had time to figure out so far.
Did that by editing the gtkrc file inside the gtk-2.0 folder that's inside the Shiki-Brave folder in usr/share/themes.
Changed the line "GtkRange:lider-width = 20 # Scrollbar width."
The 20 being the change, up from 15 which I found too narrow.

I copied the theme from usr/share/themes to the destop & played around with the copy, didn't matter if I broke anything then, still had the original untouched, once finished I renamed the folder to Shiki-Brave-2, and then in the file index.theme inside the folder changed the line "Name=Shiki-Brave" to "Name=Shiki-Brave-2", pasted it into usr/share/themes and loaded it.
If you don't change the name line in index.theme you'll get 2 entries with the same name under the Style tab in the Appearence settings, they both load ok but it's easier to see which is which if they show in the Appearance settings as 2 different names.