I had something very similar happen with my installation of Darktable
2.0.7 on CentOS 7. It was caused by an update to a shared CSS file. I
forget the exact name of the file, but I was able to find it by
examining the Gtk messages that came up when I started Darktable from
the command line.

--
August Schwerdfeger
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On 11/05/2017 04:49 PM, Michael wrote:
> I installed from the PPA via apt. How do you reenable the PPA?
>
> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Robert William Hutton
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Those symptoms occur when GTK3 has been updated without darktable
>     being updated to match.  The red areas indicate that there's a
>     problem with the layout, so CSS might be involved, but I more
>     often see this when I update the OS from one release to the next
>     (say, Ubuntu 17.04 to Ubuntu 17.10) without rebuilding darktable.
>
>     You say "My system updated over 400 packages this morning."  Could
>     it be that GTK was one of those packages?
>
>     What distro are you running?  How did you install darktable?
>
>     If you installed from the PPA, it's likely that it was disabled
>     during the upgrade, and that you're running the darktable version
>     from the previous release.  Or if you build from source, you
>     should do a complete rebuild.
>
>     -R
>
>
>     On 06/11/17 06:38, Michael wrote:
>
>         I figured dt was updated this morning. Can someone tell me how
>         to get it back to the way it was istead of the way it is now?
>
>         On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Patrick Shanahan
>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>         <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>
>             * Michael <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>         <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> [11-05-17
>         14:28]:
>              > I was actually alive in the 80's. Comodore64 was my
>         first computer. No...
>              > we had a timex before that.
>              > Anyways: this is what my screen looks like now:
>              > [image: Inline image 1]
>              > My system updated over 400 packages this morning. I
>         cant give a sample of
>              > the previous set-up.
>              >
>              > On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Patrick Shanahan
>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>             <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>              >
>              > > * Michael <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>         <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> [11-05-17
>         14:17]:
>              > > > this has the look of something from the eighties! I
>         feel like you are
>              > > going
>              > > > to turn people off from even trying it. What
>         happened to the menu on the
>              > > > left?
>              > > >
>              > > > On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Michael
>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>         <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>              > > >
>              > > > > I do not like it. It is too blocky. It is too
>         colorful. How do I go
>              > > back
>              > > > > to the previous version? This one makes me feel
>         stupid.
>              > > > >
>              > > > > --
>              > > > > :-)~MIKE~(-:
>              > > > >
>              > > >
>              > > >
>              > > >
>              > > > --
>              > > > :-)~MIKE~(-:
>              > > >
>              > > >
>         ____________________________________________________________
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>         <http://lists.darktable.org>
>              > >
>              > > it is still there, did you loose it?  how did you
>         accomplish that?  what
>              > > people do you mean?  were you actually here in the 80's?
>              > >
>              > > --
>              > > (paka)Patrick Shanahan       Plainfield, Indiana,
>         USA          @ptilopteri
>              > > http://en.opensuse.org    openSUSE Community Member 
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>              > >
>              > >
>              >
>              >
>              > --
>              > :-)~MIKE~(-:
>              >
>              >
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>             so why are you blaming dt?
>
>             --
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