Black menus in GTK Apps with Kubuntu
I recently put together an awesome new desktop machine for gaming. Of course I immediately put Kubuntu Feisty on it. When compiz-fusion came out I slapped that on there too. It worked great... except for the ccsm (CompizConfig Settings Manager) App. Just about everything in that application was black text on a black background. I thought perhaps it had something to do with Compiz. I removed Compiz, but then noticed that Kino had the same problem.I thought that it must be a GTK app issue so I searched Google for "black menus gtk". Sure enough here is a post on the Kubuntu Forums.Having looked through the forums, I found a couple references to this dating back through the previous two releases. There currently doesn't appear to be a workaround for it.If you select "Use my KDE style in GTK applications" from "GTK Styles and Fonts" all my GTK based applications have black menus. If I "Use another style" everything works fine.Any help?James So I went into the GTK Styles and Fonts settings and selected the "Use another style:" setting and left the default of QT. Well that still didn't work, so I chose the only other option, which was Raleigh. Sure enough all my GTK apps are looking just fine again. Thank goodness it wasn't Compiz! the eye candy is nice, but the one truly useful part of Compiz is the transparency. I use it all the time to watch CNN under an app that I'm using or to watch a process, or to watch log files that I'm tailing.
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