[SOLVED] On hover to a button changes TEXT color - makes it unreadable

shadyabhi · 2011-09-11 20:51:05

Without hovering using mouse, a button looks like this http://i.imgur.com/mbSo6.png

After hovering, it looks like this -> http://i.imgur.com/gO4ma.jpg

So, the text color changes to almost white, I am really having hard time figuring that out. I have tried gnome-color-chooser which seems elaborate but even that doesn't have option to change that.

As far as I guess, its the issue of bg color not changing on few widgets. And this thing (no bg color changing) also occurs at places like "when I hover over a icon in nautilus ( http://i.imgur.com/TiZf7.png )".

I am using openbox and that app I shows is a gtk app.

# DO NOT EDIT! This file will be overwritten by LXAppearance.
# Any customization should be done in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine instead.

gtk-theme-name="drakfire dream"
gtk-icon-theme-name="crystalsvg"
gtk-font-name="Lucida G 7"
gtk-cursor-theme-name="Oxygen_Black"
gtk-cursor-theme-size=0
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS
gtk-toolbar-icon-size=GTK_ICON_SIZE_LARGE_TOOLBAR
gtk-button-images=0
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-enable-event-sounds=1
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=1
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle="hintfull"
gtk-xft-rgba="rgb"
gtk-color-scheme="tooltip_fg_color:#ffffff\nlink_color:#DD4814\nbase_color:#ffffff\nselected_fg_color:#bc2db76fb76f\ntext_color:#3C3C3C\nbg_color:#F2F1F0\ntooltip_bg_color:#000000\nselected_bg_color:#f07746\nfg_color:#4c4c4c\n"
include "/home/skr/.gtkrc-2.0.mine"

Last edited by shadyabhi (2011-09-12 04:16:45)

jasonwryan · 2011-09-11 21:06:28

Please don't cross-post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126315

shadyabhi · 2011-09-11 21:17:53

I am sorry for carelessly doing that. I didn't have in mind that there was already a post from my account.

Its sad that I can not delete a post once I started it.
I am really dying to know the cause or how can it be solved?

Last edited by shadyabhi (2011-09-11 21:52:56)

bernarcher · 2011-09-11 21:19:00

Closed the other thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126315

Jodell · 2011-09-11 21:39:07

Its your gtk theme. You can either change the theme you are using or fix it in the theme itself.

shadyabhi · 2011-09-11 21:54:24

Please tell a theme which doesnt have problem and I will use that.

jasonwryan · 2011-09-11 21:55:50

Please look through the screenshots threads yourself to find one that fits your requirements - rather than asking the community to do the work for you...

shadyabhi · 2011-09-11 22:07:28

jasonwryan wrote:

Please look through the screenshots threads yourself to find one that fits your requirements - rather than asking the community to do the work for you...

Its not that I care about the looks. I just want a theme that doesn't have this problem. I have tried installing many themes and they all had this problem. That is why, I wanted to have the ~/.gtkrc2.0 and theme name of a perfectly working theme.

shadyabhi · 2011-09-12 04:16:08

OK guyz, sorry for the post but this might help someone. I later figured out that I had a ~/gtk-3.0/settings.ini which was being written by lxappearance so I assumed that it was the file from which gtk3 took its settings.

Later, I was reading the wiki and figured out that the real folder was .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
Now, my gtk3.0 settings are

[Settings]
gtk-theme-name = drakfire dream
gtk-fallback-icon-theme = gnome
# next option is applicable only if selected theme supports it
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme = true
gtk-font-name = Lucida Mac 7.5

Now, I don't have the problem anymore

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#1 2011-09-11 20:51:05

[SOLVED] On hover to a button changes TEXT color - makes it unreadable

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