Hacking Gnome’s OSD colors under Ubuntu
I finally decided to hack my mail filter to display a brief summary of incoming non-spam email via OSD, but something had to be done about the vomit/birdshit color scheme that gnome-osd-server was using by default.
Since its configuration GUI, gnome-osd-properties, doesn’t have anywhere you can change the colors, I realized it was probably going to come down to tracking down where the colors are hardcoded and changing them by hand.
Thankfully, the relevant programs were written in Python, and I didn’t have to go compile anything from source — don’t get me wrong, I grew up on the command line, and at least 75% of my time is spent in xterms, but I’ve found that fighting with your package manager is, more often than not, more of a pain in the ass than it’s worth.
Anyway, enough irrelevant crap. The file you’ll want to edit is /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gnomeosd/server.py.
I had originally written here that you could just kill gnome-osd-server, but that appears to respawn a new process for every OSD message afterwards. Probably not such a great idea. I suggest that, once you get a couple colors you like, you simply bounce the X server (log out, log back in).
Enjoy your new OSD color scheme under Gnome.
Dear God, man, thank you so much– I’ve wondered if the colours could be changed for ages now. Gnome-OSD is incredibly convenient… but really, could they have chosen a fuglier colour scheme?
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