[xubuntu-users] Desktop icon text

[James Freer]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:25 PM, James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Keith Powell
> <keith at keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk> wrote:
>> Greetings!
>>
>> For several days, I have been trying Xubuntu 11.10, both as a liveCD and
>> installed inside Windows using wubi.
>>
>> I am very impressed with it and like it a lot - except for one thing.
>>
>> I don't like the desktop icon text being inside a box, much preferring white
>> lettering and no box!
>>
>> All the results of my searches give the solution of creating a .gtkrc-2.0
>> file in my home directory and putting:
>>
>> A style
>> and such as fg[NORMAL] = "ffffff" in it.
>>
>> I have tried everything I can find, but nothing works - still the default
>> icons.
>>
>> Is there any way of changing the desktop icon texts, please?
>>
>> If I can, it's definitely Xubuntu for me!
>>
>> Sorry if this has been asked recently, but a search of the mailing list
>> revealed nothing.
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> Keith
>
> I thought i'd have a look for you. I've now lost all my desktop icons.
> Is it really that much of an issue? I've been using xubuntu for 18
> months and i wouldn't change to anything else.
>
> james

managed to fix it now

james