5

Why in many themes my menus are too white (text and background)?

view full story
linux-howto

http://askubuntu.com – I started using Lubuntu (12.04) and I like the customizations that I was able to make, especially fitting icons and themes ('Widgets' - as 'Customize Look and Feel' calls them.) But for some reason about a half of the themes make my menus display a pale font on a whitish background - and look unclear. So, I am stuck with customizations involving themes that are darker or that otherwise don't lead to this. I am aware only of some but important menus that are affected by this, like the Main menus, Right-click context menus of File browsers and the Firefox right-click and drop-down menus. The (HowTos)

missing's picture
Submitted by missing on 07/16/2012 – Made popular on 07/16/2012

Stories similar to Why in many themes my menus are too white (text and background)?

I installed the light themes from synaptic but when I went to Customize look and feel, I clicked the Ambiance theme but the menus won't change from white? What's going wrong?

Something happened to my theme (I guess) where all the menu's font background color is white. This is for all menus, right click mouse menu and that top menu bar. I'm new to Ubuntu and I'm trying it out. I was following some instructions on changing themes ...something about installing gnome 3.4. And now my menu's are all messed up.

With most programs, context (right-click) menus and other menus have a shadow under them to indicate that they're separate from the rest of the program. This makes them easy to read. In LibreOffice, however, menus don't have shadows, and the top menu (file/edit/view, etc) is still in the program window itself, instead of in the global menu. How can I fix these problems?

After a recent update of muffin-git*, popup (mostly right-click) menus in all applications have become invisible - if I click where I think the popup menu is supposed to be, a random action occurs (as I don't know which command is being clicked).  Firefox compact menu uses a popup so this does not display either.  Popup menus only work in Java applications (e.g., libre-office).Norma

This is new since upgrade to 11.10, now when I click the system menus for notification icons, logged in user, etc on the top right, they don't stay open, they just close immediately.

Application menus on the top right do stay open correctly once clicked.

This is pretty inconsistent an awful, so how do I fix it? :)

I have the latest Fedora. With the latest official updates. Yet, I'm doing something wrong or nobody has context menus as long as mine. Because when I right click in my browser the first line is both invisible and unclickable as it is overlapped by the top bar, the one with the date and time. I can use the keyboard to reach that very position, but I still have to guess what's written there.

I'm using a modified Ambience theme (found in the Ambience-colors package, here: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/download-ambiance-and-radiance-themes.html ) and the right-click menus of the Ambiance colored themes are white, just like the original Ambiance theme on 12.04 (but there are mods for that one)

How can I change the color of the right-click menu to black with the Ambiance-color theme?

The concept of the right-click context menu has been around since forever but you don't have to be content with the defaults that come with your software, especially file managers. KDE's Dolphin and Konqueror are no exceptions.

I've got LibreOffice 3.6.1 and cannot find the menus. It seems there are only toolbars with icons and no menus. Is this a problem with LXDE or is LibreOffice like that now? Pressing Alt+F or even just plain Alt does nothing.