xfce4 make the desktop font background transparent

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/200096/how-to-make-xfce-desktop-icons-text-transparent

edit ~/.gtkrc-2.0 to add the following script at the end of the file

style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {

XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0

XfdesktopIconView::selected-label-alpha = 170

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"