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
white font on light grey background
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white font on light grey background
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Re: white font on light grey background
Make sure you have the mint-themes package installed and not mint-x-themes.
There's known problems with mint-x-themes and new GTK3 libraries.
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apt-cache policy mint-themes
Re: white font on light grey background
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
Jerry
Re: white font on light grey background
Sorry, should have explained better. That command was just to show you how to check if the mint-themes package was installed or not.jerryinky wrote: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
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
Of course, you can do this all in Synaptic as well if you want an easy GUI tool to use.
Re: white font on light grey background
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
I need to do a better job of looking up and understanding these commands before blindly running them.
Thanks again for your help.
Jerry