I would like to change the forecolor of the font in my panel. For instance the "Application Menu" is currently in white and I would like to make it blue. While searching on this topic I came under a post which stated that this could be accomplished by adding a stylesheet parameter to the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 . However that did not work. I also wanted to change the width of scrollbars adding that to my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 worked. Now my question is how can i change the font color of text in my panel . Any help would be appreciated. Below is a copy of my .gtkrc-2.0 and I installed Xfce on top of fedora 20. I tried putting in any randowm colour but nothing seems to work for the foreground color of the font