Gnome-color-chooser is a tool which allows you to control the colors used in GNOME with a lot more granularity than the default "Appearance" app.

Unfortunately, Fedora does not have a repository with a gnome-color-chooser rpm, so you will need to compile it yourself.

Here are the instructions, tested with gnome-color-chooser v. 0.2.5 and Fedora 13/14:

su

yum install wget gcc-c++ glib-devel intltool gtkmm24-devel libglademm24-devel libgnomeui-devel libgnome-devel libxml2-devel

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gnomecc/gnome-color-chooser/0.2.5/gnome-color-chooser-0.2.5.tar.gz

tar -xzvf gnome-color-chooser-0.2.5.tar.gz

mv gnome-color-chooser-0.2.5 /opt/gnome-color-chooser

cd /opt/gnome-color-chooser/

./configure

make

make install

After installing, you can find it under System -> Preferences -> Gnome Color Chooser.

Comments

trm96: Awesome thanks! Works like a charm!

andyfitz: thanks!

David: Thank you very much. Works perfect on CentOS-6

Daniel: tested under Fedora 16 - works