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Bug#117974: nautilus: Selection of color for desktop icon labels ...
Transparency will not work if you have web content on your desktop, Control Panel - Display Properties - Desktop tab - Customize Desktop - Web tab. Clear all check boxes. 4. Ensure the Wallpaper is an image file not HTML. See: Desktop icons and icon labels may not display background transparency or the drop shadow

XP Desktop icon label font appearance
When I right-click on my desktop, and select "Arrange Icons By" and then click on "Lock Web Items On Desktop", all of the labels below each of my desktop items are highlighted in blue, as one of them would be if I single left-clicked on ONE of the desktop items. The blue highlight goes away when I unlock the web

desktop icon labels black
Three phases here: Start/Control Panel/System/Advanced/Performance/Settings/ Visual Effects/"Use drop shadows for icon labels on the Desktop" Also: Right click the desktop and select Arrange Icons by. Towards the bottom of that list, uncheck "Lock web items on the desktop." Underlined: Windows Explorer/Tools/Folder

desktop icon labels
Choppette jlapl...@sprynet.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support suddenly, the details (contents/path) of my desktop icons and folders are not displayed when i place the pointer on them. This seems to have arisen spontaneously, but i'm sure i did something screwy. i went into the display controls (control

Background color of desktop icon labels
sandy58 Alecki...@aol.com microsoft public windowsxp newusers jeanniemarie530 wrote: I want to know how to box-in with the color I choose, the words under my desktop icons. I did this on another users account but don't remember how and now I want to do it to mine. I have tried to set all the settings I can think of

Need to supress underlining of desktop ICON labels
The desktop settings became corrupted when we lost power and the PC I was working on didn't have a UPS. I have gotten rid of the blue background behind the desktop icon names but now the names are on one line rather than wrapping to fit the size of the icon. How do I fix this? Thanks! Sue.

Desktop Icon Label Colour
I want to know how to box-in with the color I choose, the words under my desktop icons. I did this on another users account but don't remember how and now I want to do it to mine. I have tried to set all the settings I can think of to the same as the other account but nothing seems to work.

Desktop icon rearrange on refresh anomaly on windows xp
Ever since I installed MS Internet Explorer 4.0 on my Dell Latitude, I notice that all the label buttons on my desktop files are truncated to 2 lines only; ie the long file names still exist but you have to actually click on the desktop icon label for the entire file name to appear.

Icon Labels
I installed some software (Agfa PhotoWise 2.0) and after I rebooted the labels for my icons on the desktop are invisible. If I select the icon, the label will appear. Also, when I run Internet Explorer (4.0) the menu headers (File, Edit, Options, ect) are missing replace by a line. If I click on the line,

desktop icon label background?
Engriffi emgri...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp customize When I first loaded XP up and put my favorite background image in, the text labels on my icons were trasparent, leaving the label text on the background image. What I mean is that the image showed through where there normally would be a 'block'

long labels on desktop icons
Pennywise P...@DerryMaine.gov 24hoursupport helpdesk alt os windows-xp On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 06:02:49 GMT, "Patrick D. Rockwell" <hnhc...@prodigy.net> wrote: When I right-click on my desktop, and select "Arrange Icons By" and then click on "Lock Web Items On Desktop", all of the labels below each of my desktop items

Desktop Icon label format
When I start Windows, all my desktop icon labels appear as I expec them to until some stuartup program loads, at which point the labels turn black (my preferred beige background color turns black) and they...the labels...become unreadable. The icons themselves are unaffected. I can correct the problem with

Desktop ICON labels missing
Alan -- Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, Frank Holland <frankholl...@earthlink.net> wrote: Is it possible to set the desktop <label> background to transparent? Frank D. Holland Denver Colorado USA To change one's self is sufficient. It's the idiots who want to change the

desktop icon labels
I just upgraded to XP Pro (from stock 98SE) on my 3550 and for some reason instead of the icon labels having the normal clear overlay on the wallpaper, it is theWindows background color. Display on the integrated 810 video is set to 1024x768x16 bit, but it's the same if I reset to 24-bit color.

Getting the label of a desktop icon
Uncheck Lock icons .... Right click Desktop .... Point to Arrange icons by .... Uncheck "Lock web items" 3. Use Drop shadows for icons .... Click Start .... Click Run .... Type sysdm.cpl ,3 .... Click Enter .... Click the first "Settings" button .... Scroll down and tick "Use drop shadows for icon labels.

Desktop Icon Labels.
How can I make the label below a desktop icon wrap around for more than 2 lines? I'm sure I used to be able to do this, perhaps in Win95. I'd like to make them more informative but they always truncate the text after 2 lines with ellipses (,,,) I've tried fooling around with granularity, etc. in the desktop

How can I make my desktop icon labels transparent?
I've heard that there is a way to make the box around the label on the desktop icon transpatent, so all you see is the text, not the background. There are several utilities which can do this. Eg, the free Activicons utility from http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_ai.html has this option is on its "Interface" screen under

desktop icon label background?
That is, if you were to get the average color of the section of image that the icon sits on and use that, it should work. This obviously implies that one icon may have white text and the one next to it black, but the result is a usable desktop no matter what garish, awful pattern I chose for it.

Desktop Icon Labels
Right click Desktop ... Point to Arrange icons by ... Uncheck "Lock web items" 3. Use Drop shadows for icons ... Click Start ... Click Run ... Type sysdm.cpl ,3 ... Click Enter ... Click the first "Settings" button ... Scroll down and tick "Use drop shadows for icon labels.

desktop icon label background 2nd post..
I get the correct count of desktop icons, but progman (and then Windows) crashes on the statement you marked. Do you have a reference that says this is the right way to do it? I ask because I see that the ClassName of the child window your are messaging is "SysListView32", and I wonder if the "Sys.