On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:42:03 +0000 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Meanwhile, I've been back to my 6.8 system with firefox-8.0 and > confirmed that - even specifying a theme which did not exist there > (Clearlooks) - that version of firefox came up with nice grey > backgrounds everywhere in the borders, and also in the preferences. > > Now I'm back on 7.0 / 8.0.1 I've got chunks of black in the borders > (menu bar, all icon backgrounds at the top, and similarly the > backgrounds to Previous Next etc which come up at the bottom if I > use Edit -> Find). And, of course, the preferences texts are black > on black. > > This sounds like what people have been reporting ever since ff4 > came out - even on kde and 'doze - but since my main change in this > build is gtk+-2.24.8 / glib-2.30.1 it feels like a gtk change has > led to this - previously, I was using 2.22.1 and 2.26.1. Or maybe > it's glib - certainly glib is blamed for the pango-1.28 problems > I saw (G_CONST_RETURN no longer defined) when my script erroneously > started to build libglade. This sed works for me with libglade-2.6.4: sed -i '/DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED/d' glade/Makefile.in I wonder if your black menus problem is to do with cairo or pixman? What versions of cairo and pixman have you installed? Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
