white font on light grey background

[jerryinky]

I'm having trouble reading some of the windows in LMDE because it displays a white font on a light grey background. examples are Nautilus and the system settings windows. Can someone tell me where to change either the text color or the text background color?

thanks, Jerry

[squeezy]

Make sure you have the mint-themes package installed and not mint-x-themes.

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apt-cache policy mint-themes

There's known problems with mint-x-themes and new GTK3 libraries.

[jerryinky]

thank you for your help. I executed the apt-cache command you suggested but it did not change the font color. The text on these windows is still almost impossible to read.

Jerry

[squeezy]

thank you for your help. I executed the apt-cache command you suggested but it did not change the font color. The text on these windows is still almost impossible to read.

Jerry

Sorry, should have explained better. That command was just to show you how to check if the mint-themes package was installed or not.

If it's not installed run these two commands in a terminal:

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sudo apt-get purge mint-x-themes
sudo apt-get install mint-themes

You might have to go and reselect the Mint-X or Mint-Z theme after this in the Appearance settings for you DE. Not sure which environment you're running.

Of course, you can do this all in Synaptic as well if you want an easy GUI tool to use.

[jerryinky]

Thanks, Again. That solved the problem. When I ran the apt-cache command again I could see that it said the mint-themes were not installed. I ran the apt-get commands and it installed mint-themes and that has solved my problem with the white font.

I need to do a better job of looking up and understanding these commands before blindly running them.

Thanks again for your help.
Jerry