Gnome-shell's desktop is unusable with any light colored wallpaper as the icon names (also white) are unreadable. There doesn't seem to be anyway to change their color, changing various themes doesn't seem to help either.
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Gnome-shell's desktop is unusable with any light colored wallpaper as the icon names (also white) are unreadable. There doesn't seem to be anyway to change their color, changing various themes doesn't seem to help either.
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After searching here and there to change the themes file, it seems I don't need to change anything in the theme to have this. In fact, It's not even possible without much hacking. Because Gnome Developers (for some reason only known to them) bundled most of the theme files in
gresource
binary file. The files in/usr/share/themes/Adwaita
only for GTK-2 components. Gtk-3 files are inlibgtk-3.so
file andgnome-shell-theme.gresource
file.But finally I observed that the overridden file take effects actually, though it takes time.
You would override the theme. The content is same as given by Sillyman. The difference is, you write in
gtk.css
file in~/.config/gtk-3.0
folder.Replace your favorite color in
color
field. You can even thicken the shadow by increasing the pixels.But you need to wait some time. Try using another theme for a while after overriding it. You can also try killing nautilus using
nautilus -q
and starting it again.Here is a screenshot after changing the font color in Adwaita.
Here is some useful links I visited about this problem. It may help future visitors.