I am not sure what happened, but I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 and it is unusable right now because of the white text on white background problem as seen in the screenshot.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
I am not sure what happened, but I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 and it is unusable right now because of the white text on white background problem as seen in the screenshot.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
The only way I've found to change colors is to edit the following three files in whatever theme I'm using.
/usr/share/themes/{theme name}/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
/usr/share/themes/{theme name}/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
/usr/share/themes/{theme name}/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
In the beginning of these files you'll find 4 pairs of core foreground and background colors used in applications based on the gtk 2 and gtk 3 libraries. Pair base_color
and text_color
are used for the document or text entry portions of windows where bg_color
and fg_color
are are used for the windows area where icons and labels are displayed.
Selected pair is for selected text and the tooltip pair is used for the tips that pop up when you hover over a button or link. These colors may be applied by applications with varying opacity or shadings. The colors you'll want to check are the base_color and text_color pair. #ffffff
is pure white. You may find the gcolor2 application helpful for determining the color codes. These sets of labels appear in all three files so I've been changing all three to be the same for any label I change.
Here's an example of what I changed in the gtk.css
file in the Ambiance theme:
Keep in mind that the ones you're most interested in are base_color
for background and text_color
for the text foreground. I your example they both appear to be the same, #ffffff
or other tinted white colors.
/* default color scheme */
@define-color bg_color #cdc3b8;
@define-color fg_color #262626;
@define-color base_color #accdff;
@define-color text_color #262626;
@define-color selected_bg_color #01b9fc;
@define-color selected_fg_color #ffffff;
@define-color tooltip_bg_color #A3D0FF;
@define-color tooltip_fg_color #023C79;
/usr/share/{theme}/gtk-2.0/gtkrc AND/OR ~/.themes/{theme}/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
are the ones that need to be edited
text_color:#000000/nbg_color:#ffffff
is the code for black text and white boxes, for this specific issue fro mthe screenshot you may need to change the other 6 elements and test out which affect that specific text element.
I am using Equinox Evolution Midnight on Sabayon linux with openbox and lxappearance does not change the colour of the white text on black text boxes or white text on white background in firefox (also libreoffice had reversed colours, yuck) I hope someone spends less time figuring this out because of this post
You can use dconf-editor (in package dconf-tools on ubuntu) and change the value at org.gnome.desktop.interface
.