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picarica

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Registered: 2018-01-23

Posts: 48

XFCE4 Arc theme problem with white text on white background GTK ERROR

so i have this problem that on firefox and on the other browser (yandex browser,falkon) i have white text on white background also black text on black background the site looks weird whole site is white but the text area is black where it shouldnt be

so i think problem is in the theme i use which is Arc-Dark also i get these error everytime i open some application in terminal could that be somewhat related ?

mousepad:8282): Gtk-WARNING **: 02:52:01.791: Theme parsing error: <data>:6:28: The style property GtkWidget:focus-padding is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version

i dont know if this problem is directly in the theme or some gkt packages i am missing but i got everything that said was needed on the wiki

here are my gtk related packages (also theme)

local/arc-gtk-theme 20180114-1
    A flat theme with transparent elements for GTK 3, GTK 2 and Gnome-Shell
local/arc-solid-gtk-theme 20180114-1
    A flat theme for GTK 3, GTK 2 and Gnome-Shell (without transparency)
local/at-spi2-atk 2.26.2-1
    A GTK+ module that bridges ATK to D-Bus at-spi
local/gtk-update-icon-cache 3.22.30-1
    GTK+ icon cache updater
local/gtk-xfce-engine 2.10.1-2 (xfce4)
    Xfce Gtk+-2.0 engine and themes
local/gtk2 2.24.32-1
    GObject-based multi-platform GUI toolkit (legacy)
local/gtk3 3.22.30-1
    GObject-based multi-platform GUI toolkit
local/gtkmm 2.24.5-2
    C++ bindings for gtk2
local/gtkmm3 3.22.2+2+g3002ed86-1
    C++ bindings for GTK+ 3
local/gtksourceview2 2.10.5-4
    A text widget adding syntax highlighting and more to GNOME
local/gtksourceview3 3.24.8-1
    A text widget adding syntax highlighting and more to GNOME
local/gtkspell 2.0.16-7
    Provides word-processor-style highlighting and replacement of misspelled words in a GtkTextView widget
local/lib32-at-spi2-atk 2.26.2-1
    A GTK+ module that bridges ATK to D-Bus at-spi
local/lib32-gtk2 2.24.32-1
    GObject-based multi-platform GUI toolkit (legacy) (32-bit)
local/lib32-gtk3 3.22.30-1
    GObject-based multi-platform GUI toolkit (32-bit)
local/lib32-libdbusmenu-gtk2 16.04.0-2
    Library for passing menus over DBus (32-bit) (GTK+ 2 library)
local/lib32-libdbusmenu-gtk3 16.04.0-2
    Library for passing menus over DBus (32-bit) (GTK+ 3 library)
local/libdbusmenu-gtk2 16.04.0-2
    Library for passing menus over DBus (GTK+ 2 library)
local/libdbusmenu-gtk3 16.04.0-2
    Library for passing menus over DBus (GTK+ 3 library)
local/libxfcegui4 4.10.0-5
    Various Gtk widgets for Xfce4 (Deprecated library)
local/osx-arc-darker 1.4.7-2
    OSX-Arc-Darker Theme for GTK 3.x

can this be resolved or should i sit with the default ugly theme adwaita ?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,229

Re: XFCE4 Arc theme problem with white text on white background GTK ERROR

bright on dark themes are notorious for trouble w/ any gtk version ever since. There're too many hardcoded colors in all sorts of elements - gtk is controlled by gnome and gnome is very much a "use it as we meant it" thing.
There're severaly themes which attempt to work around known issues and w/ many stock elements things actually work, so there's no problem in like 80% of all cases and everyhitng's completely broken for the rest.
Here the colors seem to bleed into the web renderer.

For browsers, the sylish extension (user css management) comes to the rescue, since it allows you to override the web elements appearance, eg.

input[type="text"], input[type="search"], input[type="password"], input[type="email"], input[type="number"], input[type="tel"], input[type="url"], textarea {
        background-color: #272727 !important;
        color: #fafafa !important;

There're also global dark styles available for download which will attempt to make every webpage completely dark etcetc.

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sonoran

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From: sonoran desert

Registered: 2009-01-12

Posts: 192

Re: XFCE4 Arc theme problem with white text on white background GTK ERROR

so i think problem is in the theme i use which is Arc-Dark also i get these error everytime i open some application in terminal could that be somewhat related ?

I use the Arc-Dark theme in Openbox and have no problems with gtk2/3 or Firefox, so I suspect your issues stem from XFCE4.

farmerdave

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Registered: 2011-11-23

Posts: 114

Re: XFCE4 Arc theme problem with white text on white background GTK ERROR

Perhaps I have just written about the same issue?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=238842

Pillgar

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Registered: 2017-07-05

Posts: 41

Re: XFCE4 Arc theme problem with white text on white background GTK ERROR

There's an addon for Firefox I use called "Text Contrast For Dark Themes".

picarica

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Registered: 2018-01-23

Posts: 48

Re: XFCE4 Arc theme problem with white text on white background GTK ERROR

There's an addon for Firefox I use called "Text Contrast For Dark Themes".

that fixed the issue but i dont use firefox as my main browser, i use yandex browser , where i cant see any text at all (by all i mean all browser notfications not sites itself)

auctaully it didnt fixed the issue after using it for some hours i noticed that where it was working it got broken ex. yotuube

edit: grammar fix
edit:2 check

Last edited by picarica (2018-07-17 21:54:36)