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#1 2005-09-20 06:41:51
- Machiavelli
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Strange all-black widgets with gtk-qt-engine
http://machiavelli.homelinux.org/bilder/black_crap.png
This is a problem I have with most (but not all) apps using gtk-qt-engine. As you can see, all pop-up-menus are entirely black until hovering over a selection in the menu, when it retains it's normal "selected widget" color.
This is something I've experienced on two different computers (both using testing repo), two different versions of KDE (3.4 and 3.5), and several apps (xchat, gtkpacman...)
.gtkrc-2.0 looks like this:
# This file was written by KDE
# You can edit it in the KDE control center, under "GTK Styles and Fonts"
include "/usr/share/themes/Qt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
style "user-font"
{
font_name="Arial 9"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"
gtk-theme-name="Qt"
gtk-font-name="Arial 9"Any ideas?
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#2 2005-09-20 08:49:44
- Cam
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Re: Strange all-black widgets with gtk-qt-engine
I'm not a KDE user at all but from a glace I'm guessing you're using compositing? Try disabling it in your xorg.conf file and see if the problem remains. Aside from using an unstable version of KDE (;)), that's something I'd try.
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#3 2005-09-20 12:38:28
- Machiavelli
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Re: Strange all-black widgets with gtk-qt-engine
Hmm... do you suggest that this phenomena could be linked to the composite extension itself, rather than the composite manager (xcompmgr)? That might be worth a shot, even though I do enjoy xcompmgr.
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#4 2005-09-20 19:54:09
- Cam
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Re: Strange all-black widgets with gtk-qt-engine
Who knows. In my experience, it just never hurts to try 
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#5 2005-09-21 00:19:30
- oscar
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Re: Strange all-black widgets with gtk-qt-engine
Use konversation. Or kvirc. 
To err is human... to really foul up requires the root password.
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#6 2005-09-21 01:08:36
- keevn7
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Re: Strange all-black widgets with gtk-qt-engine
Or use a good GTK theme like Clearlooks-Indubstrial.
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#7 2005-10-03 21:45:59
- Centare
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Re: Strange all-black widgets with gtk-qt-engine
Ah, my GTK apps are pretty again. Thanks!
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#8 2005-11-02 18:52:14
- Dj_kourampies
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Re: Strange all-black widgets with gtk-qt-engine
This seems to be a known problem. A bug report has been filed as you can see at the gtk-qt-engine bug tracker at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4276.
Someone has posted a patch there, so I've written a PKGBUILD that includes this patch. Works great for me, I can finally read the menus again
pkgname=gtk-qt-engine pkgver=0.6 pkgrel=3 pkgdesc="A GTK engine which makes your GTK2 Apps match your QT theme" url="http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/gtk-qt" depends=('gtk2' 'kdelibs' 'qt' 'x-server') source=(http://www.freedesktop.org/~davidsansome/gtk-qt-engine-0.6.tar.bz2) md5sums=('9c02c95a6e8d304b1f2801429759e1c0') build() { cd $startdir/src wget --no-check-certificate -O - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=3446 > gtk-qt-engine-0.6-alt-menubg-colormap.patch patch -p0 < gtk-qt-engine-0.6-alt-menubg-colormap.patch cd $pkgname-$pkgver ./configure --prefix=/usr make || return 1 make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install || return 1 }
I love u
U helped me fix the gtk-qt-engine allowing me to use linux and kde as my primary desktop system (no more windows), and also forced me to learn how abs works, thats a very useful knowledge. thanks 
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