Bug#685465: GtkStyle: Selecting/Highlighting text uses black color making it unreadable

[Paul Menzel]

retitle 685465 GtkStyle: Selecting/Highlighting text uses black color making it unreadable
affects 685465 + evince
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Am Mittwoch, den 22.08.2012, 12:49 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:

> Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2012, 16:27 +1000 schrieb Russell Stuart:
> > Turns out my bug has already been reported upstream, and has been marked
> > as a duplicate of:
> > 
> >   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671437
> > 
> > That bug has been marked as resolved, but the fix is not yet in a
> > released version.
> 
> It turns out, Russell saw two issues. Upgrading to libgtk-3-0 3.4.2-3
> the part of the issue still exists, where highlighting text is done with
> black color making it unreadable. This did not happen with the bug
> reported upstream is about. Therefore I am reopening this report again.
> 
> I too experience the second part of the issue. Upgrading to Evolution
> 3.4.3 revealed that the fix for #669694 [1]
> 
>         libgtk-3-0: Using non-GNOME window manager some areas in GTK application windows are black
> 
> is incomplete. With Evolution 3.2.2 everything worked fine after
> upgrading to libgtk-3-0 3.4.2-3, but now with Evolution 3.4.3
> highlighting/selecting text makes it unreadable because black color is
> used.
> 
> Additionally, GNOME Terminal seems to have suffered from that issues all
> along. There is a black background making the black font unreadable. The
> solution is to change the profile setting to not use the system theme.

I also noticed that Evince is suffering from this issue too. Opening a
PDF with text in it with Evince and selecting/marking/highlighting some
text with the mouse, it is just black.

> Please keep in mind, that this does not happen when using GNOME. This
> seems to set a system theme alleviating this problem.


Thanks,

Paul


PS: Everybody, responding to this report, please make sure to keep
threading, by doing `bts show --mbox 685465` from the package
`devscripts` and import the downloaded mbox file to your mail program.


> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=669694
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