Nautilus text color

[jonshouse]

I cant find anything in gnome-control-center that changes the text color in Nautilus.

I started with a window background color, but this vanishes when I logout !!

This image should have text under the icons, it does show text when item is selected.
http://www.jonshouse.co.uk/Screenshot-MACHINES.png

Anyone any ideas ?

[macemoneta]

Menu System->Preference->Appearance, on the Theme tab, customize the current (selected) theme. On the Colors tab, you can set the text color.

[jonshouse]

Thanks for the reply, but its not that simple. That was exactly what I tried before I posted the initial query. All the colors for "text" are non-white, but the text in the folder remains white ?

[Dies]

Originally Posted by jonshouse

Thanks for the reply, but its not that simple. That was exactly what I tried before I posted the initial query. All the colors for "text" are non-white, but the text in the folder remains white ?

It looks like you're using the default Clearlooks theme?

Does this happen in every folder? or just the one you showed us?

[jonshouse]

It looks like you're using the default Clearlooks theme?

Yes, i've tried customizing the colours on the theme, didnt fix it.

Does this happen in every folder? or just the one you showed us?

Just the one folder. Its a folder created on the desktop to store shortcuts to ssh sessions to machines. Originally I set a blue background color in the folder (edit/backgrounds), I expect the color to persist - but it always goes back to white when I log out and back in ? With a background colour set I see the white text......

Thanks,
Jon

[Dies]

Can you post the output from

gconftool-2 -R /apps/nautilus/preferences

[jonshouse]

[jon@dhcp39 ~]$ gconftool-2 -R /apps/nautilus/preferences
show_icon_text = local_only
start_with_sidebar = true
click_policy = single
background_color = #ffffff
start_with_toolbar = true
start_with_location_bar = true
search_bar_type = search_by_text
thumbnail_limit = 10485760
directory_limit = -1
mouse_back_button = 8
always_use_location_entry = false
desktop_font = Sans 10
media_autorun_x_content_start_app = []
media_automount_open = true
theme = default
exit_with_last_window = true
mouse_use_extra_buttons = true
desktop_is_home_dir = false
media_autorun_x_content_ignore = [x-content/software]
always_use_browser = false
show_desktop = true
preview_sound = local_only
sidebar_width = 148
enable_delete = false
side_pane_background_set = false
install_mime_activation = true
show_image_thumbnails = local_only
side_pane_background_filename =
sort_directories_first = true
side_pane_background_color = #ffffff
date_format = locale
background_set = false
media_autorun_never = false
show_advanced_permissions = false
background_filename =
media_automount = true
default_folder_viewer = icon_view
mouse_forward_button = 9
start_with_status_bar = true
executable_text_activation = ask
show_directory_item_counts = local_only
media_autorun_x_content_open_folder = []
side_pane_view =
confirm_trash = true

Thanks,
Jon

[Dies]

Well, that's unfortunate, nothing interesting there.

Only thing I can suggest is that you make sure there is nothing in ~/.nautilus. Other than that, you can make a new folder, then copy your shortcuts over to the new folder, does it exhibit the same behavior?

You may have found a bug, though not sure how reproducible it might be...

[jonshouse]

[jon@dhcp39 ~]$ ls -la .nautilus/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 jon jon 4096 2010-01-20 14:35 .
drwx------ 44 jon jon 4096 2010-01-29 04:17 ..
[jon@dhcp39 ~]$


I created a new folder on the desktop called "machines" then copied a Launcher files from the folder "MACHINES" and hey presto I get black text. I can only conclude that its something to do with me trying to set a background color for the folder (that didn't stick when I logout).

Any idea in pile of ever expanding shi^H^H^Hstate where gnome would be hiding the details ? Any idea why setting a background color for the folder doesn't stick, afer a logout it vanishes - is it supposed to ?

Thanks for the help,
cheers,
Jon