[ SOLVED ] Desktop Icon Label "Ghosting"

[matt]

Hi Everyone,

I just installed LL3 yesterday in my VM. This is a test run so I can see how it performs prior to installing it on my older notebook. The host machine is on Mint 18 Cinnamon. This particular issue did not show itself during the live boot and after installation. It occurred after updates were installed. It only applies to Desktop icons.

I have searched across the forum for a particular resolution to this case as I've actually mistaken it for shadow offset placement.

• I have added the following lines in the .gtkrc-2.0 file in the home directory as someone in the forum suggested.
  
  style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
      XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 75
      XfdesktopIconView::selected-label-alpha = 100
      XfdesktopIconVIew::ellipsize-icon-labels = 1
  
      XfdesktopIconView::shadow-x-offset = 0
      XfdesktopIconView::shadow-y-offset = 0
      XfdesktopIconView::shadow-color = "#000000"
      XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-x-offset = 0
      XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-y-offset = 0
      XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-color = "#ffffff"
  
      XfdesktopIconVIew::cell-spacing = 6
      XfdesktopIconView::cell-padding = 6
      XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion = 2.5
  
      base[NORMAL] = "#cccccc"
      base[SELECTED] = "#cccccc"
      base[ACTIVE] = "#cccccc"
  
      fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
      fg[SELECTED] = "#000000"
      fg[ACTIVE] = "#000000"
  }
  widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"
• After saving the file, I made three attempts (log out, reboot, shutdown). However, the changes indicated does not seem to take effect.
• This is when I started to suspect that what I'm looking at may not be a shadow after all. I dragged the icons across the screen to see if it will follow and I noticed that the dark icon labels are not shadows but are the actual icon label and that there are no shadows at all. I played around with the values of the shadow-x-offset and shadow-y-offset and gained expected results.

Here (https://s31.postimg.org/avq3rdxgb/screenshot.png) is the screenshot of the "ghosting" that occurs as a white icon label, while the ones that I've mistaken as shadows are the actual icon labels and are located directly below the icon where they should be. The style I'm using is Arc-Dark and the icons are Humanity-Dark.

Final Thoughts
Linux Lite 3 is awesome for both newer and older machines. The Xfce environment is perfect because it's light. The only snag that I ran into so far is the issue above.

[zboraon]

Thank you for your suggestion JmaCWQ. I've already tried that. Furthermore, I have already installed the missing packages suggested at the start of the link I have given in the first message. But no change. Whenever I change the parameters in the file things change, but the ugly shadows, no.

[Xorcist]

I've got the same issue (just installed LL3.0 fresh today), I think it may have happened after running the system updates, it definitely wasn't there with the Live Boot Disc.

[ebduca]

I am having the same problem after updating the OS this week

[TMG1961]

I havent changed anything, all the same since installation of LL3.0 and i also see those shadows. I am not sure if they were there from the start and i havent noticed them or that it is something from the past few days

[0bWAN]

Dear all,

After a clean install, I have installed some apps etc. But now my issue is there is an ugly shadow effect on the desktop item texts (https://www.dropbox.com/s/9bwhk7shzlh5ger/Screenshot_2016-07-13_22-56-43.png?dl=0).

I've changed the  .gtkrc-2.0 file as described in http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/tree/README, but probably I am doing smt wrong, because these shadows came into life before I modify this file.

Please help me to solve it, don't want to reinstall everything.

Thanks in advance,

Bora

Indeed - I see this on EVERY machine now and can't seem to find a fix.

This is REALLY BAD

Any help MUCH Appreciated ...

[JmaCWQ]

Try changing in the .gtkrc-2.0 file the value of any lines containing shadow-x-offset & shadow-y-offset to 0, logout & back in again.
That should remove the shadows altogether.

[zboraon]

Dear all,

After a clean install, I have installed some apps etc. But now my issue is there is an ugly shadow effect on the desktop item texts (https://www.dropbox.com/s/9bwhk7shzlh5ger/Screenshot_2016-07-13_22-56-43.png?dl=0).

I've changed the  .gtkrc-2.0 file as described in http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/tree/README, but probably I am doing smt wrong, because these shadows came into life before I modify this file.

Please help me to solve it, don't want to reinstall everything.

Thanks in advance,

Bora