said Felix Miata: | dep composed on 2017-07-30 21:17 (UTC-0400): | > Thanks to Slávek, I've just had the least-painful system upgrade in | > the (heavens! can it be?) 20 years I've run Linux exclusively. It | > wasn't totally trouble-free, but it was less awful than I usually | > encounter. | > | > But now I'm encountering a problem that is annoying: menus in Firefox | > and some other applications are reversed, white text on black | > background. | > | > Any quick and easy fix? Am running 14.04 on Ubuntu 14.04 (and | > preparing to revel in the new features everyone else has had for three | > years . . .). | | Which Firefox version from which source? Mozilla.org builds recent | versions using GTK3. Some distros still build some versions using GTK2. | The two toolkits depend on different theming.
54.0 (64-bit) from Canonical. It actually gets pretty awful -- for instance, the search box drops its little menu and that one is *transparent* with white text, making it unreadable. Additionally, several applications have reversed text and everything else is black background -- Settings > Additional Drivers from the main menu is one; particularly bad for me is that GThumb, which has no useful Trinity alternative, is also black with white text, which makes photo editing (my job) really difficult.
| I've run into reversed UI colors several times before, but always forget | exactly how to fix it by the next time it happens. I only remember | messing with GTK app theming to solve it.
Where and how might I do that? Is there a GTK control center app equivalent to KControl?
Thanks for your help.