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Since I upgraded to from 16.04 to 16.10, gedit has strange new "feature": its background is totally transparent.

like here

Where can this come from ?

Notice I'm using Unity and don't have any specific gnome package installed besides what comes by default.
Notice also that in 16.04 I used the Vivacious theme from ravefinity PPA, but I had to go back to Ambiance as Vivacious was broken in 16.10. Maybe it's related.

[EDIT] changing the 'Fonts and Colors' in gedit to any theme other than default (Kate, Solarized, Oblivion, etc..) solves the issue. So there must be a faulty gtksourview file in my home somewhare, but I can't find it...

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Probably related. – user589808 Oct 17 '16 at 12:58
    
@CelticWarrior any idea how to suppress theme remnants on my user account? – alci Oct 17 '16 at 13:23
    
Perhaps using ppa-purge against the theme PPA to revert all changes. – user589808 Oct 17 '16 at 15:44
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@CelticWarrior see my answer for this problem. Cheers, Al – heynnema Oct 21 '16 at 13:42
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I had the same problem. After much digging, I found that the file .xinputrc, in my home directory, was the cause. I just deleted this file with rm ~/.xinputrc.

The contents of the file are:

# im-config(8) generated on Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:56:49 -0700
run_im ibus
# im-config signature: fef625e6f3691095fd8f4a2f315e85f7  -
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@heynnema works for me too, but I don't understand how this is related at all. Do you have any insight on what happens ? – alci Oct 24 '16 at 8:12
    
It has something to do with the "input method", which is something you could set from System Settings in previous versions of Ubuntu. I still don't know why it did what it did to gedit though. Cheers, Al – heynnema Oct 24 '16 at 11:26
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reboot after that to make changes update – mrtuvn Nov 7 '16 at 4:29

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