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Using Linux Mint XFCE 20.2 and a while back I installed a KDE Plasma desktop to try it out. Ended up not liking it and just stuck with this one.

For some reason, while I was switching between KDE and XFCE, the text on my desktop icons changed to black with a black shadow and I don't know how to change it back (it used to be white with a black shadow). I've tried changing the theme and editing the gtk.css and colors.css files, logging out then back in, but nothing happened.

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Assuming Xfce 4.14 or better, put the following into ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css, creating gtk.css if necessary...

XfdesktopIconView.label {
        color: xxxxxx;
}

...where xxxxxx is a color name (e.g. yellow) or a color hex code (e.g. #F6E417). Then, log out and in again or reboot for the change to take effect.

Source: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1966139#p1966139

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  • I have edited that file, it doesn't work, plus it imports colors from a file called colors.css
    – linuxlife
    Nov 16, 2021 at 14:48
  • Assuming you've taken a look at colors.css to see if there's anything there that might be causing the problem and found nothing, I might try changing the color attribute in gtk.css to color xxxxxx !important;. It may allow that attribute to take precedence over whatever other css that's being applied.
    – David Yockey
    Nov 16, 2021 at 23:49
  • Note that while the link I referred is to a page on Mint's forums, I tested in Xfce on Fedora and was able to just log out and in again for a change to take effect. I don't know, but rebooting may be necessary in Mint.
    – David Yockey
    Nov 16, 2021 at 23:51

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