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MikeW

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Registered: 2011-10-19

Posts: 66

arc-theme and atom editor

When using the arc-darker application theme the top menu in atom is not really readable the menu text and the background are almost the same color. The arc-dark theme does not have the same issue, but I do prefer the badly named arc-darker theme which is actually less dark.

The said I did find a solution which feels a bit hackish but it does work. What I did was to change the exec line in the atom.desktop file so that the arc-darker theme is used for atom. Atom seems to be the only application with this issue so there is something special about atom. I have included my workaround just in case anyone else runs into this.

Exec=env GTK_THEME=Arc-Dark /usr/bin/atom %F

This is an acceptable solution to me, but I do still wonder where the bug actually is. I think this is a theme issue but it may actually be something special about atom too. Ideally this should get fixed so that you don't have to run a different theme just for atom, but I am unsure where this should get reported.