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
made some progress
(a) Openoffice updated. no joy. notice also the drop box menus don't have clear borders.
this problem persists.
(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.
I think I've addressed the problems with FF and Pan. I believe (!) installing "kgtk-qt3-trinity" helped. is there a problem with this?
FF also didn't have a vertical scrollbar; now that's fixed.
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".
I am still on Redmond. I may dare KDE_Classic again but after I do some real work.
fjd
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