menu colors

[Roger Hunter]

Hi;

Very nice puplet but the popup menus are unreadable; black text on dark backgrounds.

How can I change the font color to white or the background color to light blue?

Roger

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
Although you didnt mention what puplet you mean, I`ll take a shot here.. I am hoping your puplet is using JWM, otherwise this is useless information to come...
Assuming you dont just want to change the JWM theme, (the easy answer) and you just want to change some aspects of it, use a text editor to open .jwmrc (a hidden file) in your root directory.
I would make a copy of it first, just in case..and name it .jwmrc.bak then you can rename it to .jwmrc to restore the original..

I think the newer Puppy has a GUI just for this, but as I said, IDK what puplet you are on...

Good luck, and if any more questions, please include more info, ie:
Puplet, version, basic hardware if applicable, ect... THX...

[Lobster]

try Jays idea
or . . .
menu / desktop / jwm configuration / choose a JWM theme

more JWM themes here
http://puppy-look.tk/

[Radon92]

Hello,
I have the same question that Roger:
How to change the color of the label under the desktop icons.
This does not change the subject entirely.

thank you for any constructive respons

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
Open the options for Rox-filer.( right click in any directory, and select "options"..
Click on the "pinboard" tab, and I believe you will find what you are looking for..

[wuwei]

for Radon92,
I guess you refer to the text below the desktop icons. In that case see this post
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... te-785896/

And for Roger:
In case you are using ICEwm, change the theme via Start-settings-themes. If you need more ICEwm themes see here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 34&t=20702

[Roger Hunter]

Sorry, I thought the thread was sufficient identification.

I'm talking about Stardust Puppy .010

I'll try the suggestions, thanks.

Roger

[Roger Hunter]

Nope, none of this helped.

I can change everything except the thing that's bothering me.

Any popup menu or program has dark grey borders with black text. I'm looking at Seamonkey as I type this and can scarcely read the text that says "File Edit etc" at the top.

Roger

[wuwei]

If you are up to it Roger,
try ICEwm.

Pet here

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 780#365164

lots of themes in my post above.

[Radon92]

Hello wuwei and Roger Hunter

To change the font color, style and color of text shadow icons on the desktop:
Right-click on any icons. In choosing the mask open Rox-Filer and left click on "Options ...". In the new mask click on Pinboard left and right display window for the changes. Do not forget to validate.
It works very well.
Thank you for your help.

[CatDude]

Hello Roger

Nope, none of this helped.

I can change everything except the thing that's bothering me.

Any popup menu or program has dark grey borders with black text. I'm looking at Seamonkey as I type this and can scarcely read the text that says "File Edit etc" at the top.

I think what you need to do is go to: Menu > Programs > Desktop > Ptheme
and play with some of the settings in there.

Or you could hack the actual theme file ,
for example the default Stardust-orange file can be found at: /usr/share/themes/Stardust-orange/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
at lines 428 > 436
you will find this:

Code: Select all

style "default"
{
	#BK font = "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"
	font_name		= "DejaVu Sans 12"
	fg[NORMAL]		= "#222222"		#Foreground text of nearly all widgets (not editor text)
	fg[PRELIGHT]	= "#000000"		#Foreground text as you mouse-over something
	fg[ACTIVE]		= "#000000"		#Foreground text of non-selected but available widgets
	fg[SELECTED]	= "#000000"		#The foreground of something as you click on it, or which is already selected
	fg[INSENSITIVE]	= "#999999"		#Foreground text of inactive buttons, etc.

Just changing that "#222222" to "#ffffff"
results in that shown in image after.png compared to the original shown in image before.png

Please make a backup copy of any files you intend to edit, just in case things go pearshaped.

Also after making any changes, save them
then select the theme in Ptheme and Apply global theme

Hope this helps
CatDude
.

[Roger Hunter]

Catdude;

Once again you've saved the day!

That editing trick did exactly what I needed and I would never in the world have discovered it on my own.

Many thanks

Roger