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Quick try-out:

Desktop icons text color
An icon's text color in Cinnamon desktop is black by default, which is not always readable. The instructions to change this color depends on the GTK+ 3 version that the system is using. Get the currently used version with:


 * In GTK+ versions less than 3.13.3, this setting can only be changed system-wide. Change the text color by adding CSS rules to the file (Adwaita is the default theme coming with GTK+), after the   line:




 * The 2nd rule concerns the selected desktop icon and can be modified to get another background color or set the transparency.


 * In more recent GTK+ versions (3.13.3 onward), this must be tuned through a user-specific configuration file. Adwaita is now included in GTK+ as the theme replacing Raleigh, so rules must be set in the user's home directories. The file to edit is, and the change is now without the  line. Additionally in this example, the left Nemo side bar is gray colored: