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xfce4/gtk-3.0 - Changing text color for the panel DateTime widget?

I'm using xfce4 built on top of gtk-3.0. Here is the system info ...

System: Host: XXXXXXXX.XXX Kernel: 4.4.0-81-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.11.8 Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana

I am trying to change the text color of the DateTime widget on the panel, but none of the things I have tried is working. I have a dark panel background, so I want white text for the date and time info within this widget.

I'm using the oxygen-gtk theme, so I inserted this code in /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and restarted. But I'm still getting black clock text ...

ClockBox {
    color: #ffffff;
}

I also tried installing this same configuration info in the corresponding gtk config files for various other themes and tried each of these themes, making a point to comment out their existing ClockBox configuration, if it exists. After restarting, I am still getting black date-time text for each and every one of these themes.

In addition, for any of those themes which already had a ClockBox configuration, I just changed the existing config info to be the same as the default, except for it to contain color: #ffffff;. After restarting, I still get black date-time text.

Can anyone point me to instructions for changing the text color of the xfce4 DateTime widget?

Thank you very much.

Solution

  • Why are you using an old development release (4.11) instead of the current stable (4.12)?

    Anyway, both versions are Gtk2-based, but this version of panel might support Gtk3 plugins, which is not the case for datetime until its 0.7.0 release.

    Unfortunately, there's no class available that we could use a selector: GtkInspector on datetime plugin

    You have the following options:

    • Open a request to add a css class to allow custom styling.
    • Investigate the use of Text Attribute Markup. It works well for clock plugin, where I can set the font & color, but not for datetime. I don't know if it's regression of 0.7.0.
    • Update the patch which provides GUI settings to set the labels colors.
    • Use clock plugin with the custom format.