Dark theme but white textbox background?

[wibus]

hello,

is it possible to use Themes > Controls > Mint-Y-Dark, but keep textfields white?
Atleast in Firefox I notice most input fields have a dark background with this theme on, and a black font, so it's very difficult to read

[smurphos]

It's a Firefox bug with the way it interprets dark themes.

::::::Edited post::::::

A workaround is to create a user.js file in ~/.mozilla/firefox/1234567.default with the contents user_pref("widget.content.gtk-theme-override", "Adwaita"); which forces firefox to use Adwaita (the default GTK theme) to theme website content.

1234567.default is a placeholder for whatever Firefox has named your default profile folder.

Here is a small script here which can automate this process. Copy and paste into a text file, save as Firefox_fix.sh or similar, make executable and run in a terminal window to create the file in the correct location.

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#!/bin/bash
#Description: Helper file to write user.js to /$HOME/.mozilla/firefox/usersprofile.default folder in order to fix issues with text visibility in input fields with some themes
if find "$HOME"/.mozilla/firefox/ -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '*.default' | head -1; then 
    TARGETPATH=$(find "$HOME"/.mozilla/firefox/ -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '*.default' | head -1)
    TARGETFILE="$TARGETPATH/user.js"
	TARGETSTRING="user_pref(\"widget.content.gtk-theme-override\", \"Adwaita\");"
	if [ ! -f "$TARGETFILE" ]; then
		touch "$TARGETFILE"
		echo "creating file $TARGETFILE"
		echo ""
	fi
	if ! grep -q "widget.content.gtk-theme-override" "$TARGETFILE"; then
		echo "$TARGETSTRING" >> "$TARGETFILE"
		echo "writing  string '$TARGETSTRING' to $TARGETFILE"
		echo ""
		echo "please restart Firefox for fix to take effect"
	else
		echo "$TARGETFILE already contains a widget.content.gtk-theme-override"
	fi
else
    echo "could not locate your .default firefox profile"
fi
echo ""
read -rp "Press enter to exit the script."
exit

[gunnar26]

hi,
I have the same issue as the OP and am posting for clarification.
do I do this first:

[A workaround is to create a userChrome.css file in ~/.mozilla/firefox/1234567.default/chrome with the contents input, textarea { color: #222; background: #eee; } which forces firefox to use very dark grey text on a very light grey background for input fields.]

and then execute the script or is it all in the script.

[smurphos]

hi,
I have the same issue as the OP and am posting for clarification.
do I do this first:

[A workaround is to create a userChrome.css file in ~/.mozilla/firefox/1234567.default/chrome with the contents input, textarea { color: #222; background: #eee; } which forces firefox to use very dark grey text on a very light grey background for input fields.]

and then execute the script or is it all in the script.

Hi,

No - it's one or the other. The script just automates applying the described workaround.

[I2k4]

It's bothered me for some years that the really dark themes black out login, etc. boxes and don't compensate with a readable white font. I've usually done a mix and match of dark elements but with Controls that created too much light space - but they worked. Recently discovered "Jet-Grey" Cinnamon theme that manages a pretty nice balance of mainly dark without the readability problems the deep dark themes all seem to produce.

[spinkywix]

Hi,

Many thanks for posting this fix, I am grateful.

[smurphos]

An improved fix for this issue is described in my post above - viewtopic.php?p=1450174#p1450174