On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, Kate Draven wrote:
On Sunday 09 December 2018, Felmon Davis wrote:
folks,
the OpenOffice problem is not fixed (menu items invisible except with mouse-over). one rabbit-hole at a time.
f.
Are you running the latest version of Openoffice. It seems to be a shared bug between Libreoffice (which was resolved) and
OO.
Apparently their theme engine is messed.
See if there's an update to OO.
so here's the present state:
(a) Openoffice updated. no joy. notice also the drop box menus don't have clear borders.
(b) had a problems with firefox: black background on toolbar items and drop-down menus only appearing with mouse hover-over; fixed with a work-around Slavek proposed some time ago: "create a symlink for files from /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/theming-engines/ to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/theming-engines/"
(c) so now new issues with Pan. I can't use KDE_Classic since that gives Pan's top toolbar a black background and squeezes all the icons too close together. changing to Plastik fixes some of this though the text runs together and also no distinct borders.
SUMMARY:
so: text squeezed together in Pan 9.141; no borders on toolbar menus in Pan and Openoffice 4.1.6; menu items only visible by mouse-over in OpenOffice.
I figure this requires more deep-dives into GTK but not sure where to start. wonder about further hares to chase.
I'd like to use KDE_Classic theme but I am forced to Plastik or Redmond (seems best actually). GTK2 and GTK3 Styles set to "my TDE style".
f.
-- Felmon Davis
Most of the stuff you've mentioned I've experienced. I have to get home to me pclos trinity computer and check settings. I'll post them when I do.
Check your theme packages. Something is missing or improperly set.
The black backgrounds and the like on FF was something I had too. Checked themes on kcontrol and fix it.
More later...
Good luck lad,
Kate