White background with white font

[gpborges]

There are some dialogs where a white font is displayed on top of a white background and hence, nothing can be seeing. See this example for Startup Applications (Dropbox entry):

And I'm also seeing this white font on white background/control in one standalone application I use (IBM Lotus Sametime).

This is how this Preferences dialog look like when using default theme (or other theme):

Adwaita theme

OSX-Arc-White theme

If you could take a look on this, I'd really appreaciate!

And thanks for this GREAT theme! Nice job!

[Elbullazul]

@gpborges the IBM thing is probably due to a missing GTK2 rendering engine. Murrine-gtk2 engine needs to be installed. I don't know what distro you're on, but a quick search for murrine with the package manager should hint at what package you should install

as for the dropbox thing, have you selected the box or it just goes blank on app launch?

[gpborges]

Thanks for the prompt reply @Elbullazul However, I do have the GTK2 murrine engine installed. I'm using RHEL 7.3 which has GTK 3.14. The GT2 Murrine engine package for RHEL is this one:

gtk-murrine-engine.x86_64 : Murrine GTK2 engine

Trying to install it with yum shows I have it installed:

Package gtk-murrine-engine-0.98.2-10.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version

And in the screenshot I sent you from Startup Applications, the Dropbox row is selected. Any row I select on that screen will have both the font and background white.

Do you have any other idea on what I could do to fix it? I'm seeing this behavior in both IBM Lotus Sametime and IBM Notes and they both are Java applications, which should use GTK2 as you mentioned.

Thanks!

[gpborges]

Another example of white text in white background in Empathy. In the image bellow, I've blurried all the contact names. The one I've highlighted (a contact which does not have a picture in his profile) is selected and you can see it's all white.

If there is anything at my side I could look at to see if we can fix this, just let me know and I'm willing to help.

Thx.

[Elbullazul]

@gpborges I don't think you can fix it, but here's what you can do:

run the following command in terminal:
env GTK_DEBUG=interactive <app_name_here> and select the row (?) object with the aim tool, then select object in the headerbar tabs and select the button to the right of the aim button. please post a screenshot of the result

[gpborges]

That's what I got when I tried to run the command you've asked:

gpborges@gpborges:~$ env GTK_DEBUG=interactive empathy

(empathy:32174): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1985:23: Missing name of pseudo-class

(empathy:32174): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:3304:8: Missing name of pseudo-class

(empathy:32174): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:3308:8: Missing name of pseudo-class

(empathy:32174): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:3311:8: Missing name of pseudo-class

(empathy:32174): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:3315:8: Missing name of pseudo-class

(empathy:32174): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1985:23: Missing name of pseudo-class

(empathy:32174): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:3304:8: Missing name of pseudo-class

(empathy:32174): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:3308:8: Missing name of pseudo-class

(empathy:32174): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:3311:8: Missing name of pseudo-class

(empathy:32174): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:3315:8: Missing name of pseudo-class
gpborges@gpborges:~$

Should I had seen outputs to the console? Sorry if these are dumb questions for you, but I've never used these commands, but I'm willing to help. If you have any link with instructions on that, I can follow to collect these debugging details to send you.

Thanks!

[Elbullazul]

sorry for the wait, will check this soon

[gpborges]

Hey @Elbullazul thanks for fixing the issue with the GTK2 apps, which in my case are IBM Lotus Sametime and IBM Lotus Notes (both based on Eclipse). See bellow the screenshots after pushed the fixes.

IBM Lotus Sametime

IBM Lotus Notes

Now, just the other 2 apps I mentioned (Startup Applications and Empathy) still have white font on white background.

Thank you very much!

[gpborges]

@Elbullazul did you get a chance to look the remaining white font/white background issues?

Thx!

[Elbullazul]

@gpborges I've had busy weeks, but I will check it out, probably this weekend

[Elbullazul]

9ac10d5 should fix this