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alex404

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Registered: 2009-12-03

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Evince Highlight Colour [SOLVED]

Simple problem, but has been bugging me for ages:

When I search for a string in evince, the highlighting of the matched strings is grey, which is very hard to see. I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the search colour.

The buttons in evince also look a little weird, in that the buttons take a certain colour gradient, which the square around the icons doesn't match.

That second point is purely aesthetic, but it makes me wonder if the root of the problem is not running gnome or gnome shell. I simply use xmonad, and would rather not run it in a gnome session if I don't have to -- though I guess I wouldn't care too much.

Thanks!

Last edited by alex404 (2013-12-21 10:07:03)

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Re: Evince Highlight Colour [SOLVED]

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=154215

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alex404

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Registered: 2009-12-03

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Re: Evince Highlight Colour [SOLVED]

Hey, thanks for the pointer, but I don't think that's what my problem is about. I have installed the theme package, and am using Adwaita. In .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, I don't see anywhere where I might change the search highlight colour.

alex404

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Registered: 2009-12-03

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Re: Evince Highlight Colour [SOLVED]

Okay, so I'm still trying to figure this out. If I run gnome 3, and then run evince, I still get this annoying problem.

Here's an image:

http://s23.postimg.org/szd4y04p7/screen.png

I'm searching for the word 'Ergodic' and as you can see it just turns gray. This is not at all helpful for normal text.

If you look closely you'll also notice that, for example, in the upper right corner, with the magnifying glass, there's a white box around the glass inside the button. So it's as if the image for the button is borked.

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Last edited by alex404 (2013-12-18 19:11:10)

alex404

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Re: Evince Highlight Colour [SOLVED]

Okay, so all I had to do to fix this in the end was to delete all of my gnome settings stored around my home directory e.g. in ~/.config and so on.

I guess that's always a good thing to try with gnome.