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st@uffi

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Registered: 2013-07-17

Posts: 4

X11: Change the ugly greyed label of inactive buttons in X GUI

Hi,

As says in the subject, I'd like to change the ugly and unreadable appearance of inactive (unsensitive) widgets in X GUIs, especially items in the menus.

Here you can find a screenshot which shows you what I mean:

After some searchs, I found a resource (XmNlabelInsensitivePixmap) which define a pixmap applied to the widget's label when it's disable.

I found the Xdefault file which allows me to change some details of my application's GUI but I've no idea how to change the pixmap of this kind of resource.

Can you help me, please?

Last edited by st@uffi (2014-09-20 16:09:21)

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 590

Re: X11: Change the ugly greyed label of inactive buttons in X GUI

Your theme does that for gtk and Qt apps. Some apps like libre office need another package.
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?nam … still-kde4
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?nam … till-gnome

Ncurses, fltk, and Tk apps will use their own.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Qt

Study how gtk and Qt themes work. Get one that you like or modify one that is close to what you want.

mar04

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From: Poland

Registered: 2010-02-08

Posts: 117

Re: X11: Change the ugly greyed label of inactive buttons in X GUI

I don't think this is a GTK or Qt application, it looks like a Motif based app.

st@uffi

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Registered: 2013-07-17

Posts: 4

Re: X11: Change the ugly greyed label of inactive buttons in X GUI

Thank you for the answers.

I don't think this is a GTK or Qt application, it looks like a Motif based app.

That's right and I can configure the application's look 'n feel with a proper "Xdefaults" in the installation directory.

But I've no idea how to change the pixmap for this particular resource. I've read somewhere that they're stored in the X11's binaries, is that true?

I think I just have to specify a new pixmap to XmNlabelInsensitivePixmap, but there's no more informations in the Motif's manual.

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 590

Re: X11: Change the ugly greyed label of inactive buttons in X GUI

Found this if it helps.

https://motif.ics.com/forum
https://motif.ics.com/support/docs/documentation
https://motif.ics.com/sites/default/files/tutorial4.pdf