I am trying to specify the background color for nautilus desktop icon labels, but no success.
this is the section in /usr/share/themes/gnome-applications.css
.....
.nautilus-desktop.nautilus-canvas-item {
background-color: white;
color: black;
text-shadow: none;
}
.....
The above works as expected for active icons, i.e.
....
.nautilus-desktop.nautilus-canvas-item:active {
....
but not for the default state. any ideas why?