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Mr Green

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Registered: 2003-12-21

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Pidgin colours...

Hi,

I have a strange issue in Pidgin my text sent is the same colour as background ie black on black ... tried different settings in Pidgin but starting to think its a theme problem

Also my contacts are sending messages and they too are in the same colour text and background

Now I am not sure if its a gtk issue or Pidgin?

Gtk theme is Divinorum a dark theme

MrG

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Mr Green

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

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Re: Pidgin colours...

Are you using the plugin called Conversation Colors?

Mr Green

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Re: Pidgin colours...

no should I?

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somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

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Re: Pidgin colours...

That's what I had to use when I had the same problem you are having.

Gilneas

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 320

Re: Pidgin colours...

Does your .Xdefaults influence pidgin?

Mr Green

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Re: Pidgin colours...

@somairotevoli I will try thanks :-)

Will check .Xdefaults....

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Mr Green

buttons

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

Posts: 620

Re: Pidgin colours...

Divinorum's {gnome,xfce}-look.org page has instructions for dealing with this.  The GTK+ Theme Control plugin does exactly what this fix does.

Create a new file called .gtkrc-2.0 in your ~/.purple directory.

Mine looks like this:

style "purplerc_style"
{
    GtkIMHtml::hyperlink-color = "#33CCFF"
}
widget_class "*" style "purplerc_style"

style "Custom"
{   
    base[NORMAL] = "#292B29"
}
class "GtkWidget" style "Custom"

The key bit there is the base-changing one.  It will set a non-black background for your conversations.  Also, you must go into pidgin settings and disallow other peoples' conversation colours to affect font colour.

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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

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Re: Pidgin colours...

woah thanks man....

I have enabled colours plugin in pdigin but I will stick this in just to make sure :-)

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Mr Green