On Saturday 11 February 2017 19:33:26 Christopher Barry wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 19:23:24 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > >Greetings all; > > > >I asked about this before, but the original post seems to have been a > >victim of my expiry rules, so... > > > >I had posted a fuss about synaptic's user interface being a wreck, > > all in black and white, and the blacks were transparent, so menu's, > > rendered in white text, were overlaid over the white text from the > > main screen, difficult to see what the submenu of a pulldown was > > trying to show me. > > > >Last night, I installed about 30 pieces of glade, to get the glade > > vcp composer thats quite like pyvcp but more capable. > > > >But on running the gui editor, I find that it suffers from the same > >problem, plus the pulldowns to work it don't. This I think is a > >mixture of gtk-2 and gtk-3 stuff. > > > >To me, that says I am missing a package when using the LXDE > >environment that is part of the gtk foundation. But neither apt nor > >synaptic, what I can see of it, is suggesting that I am missing > >something. > > > >So whats the next step up in desktop's above LXDE that might solve > >this problem for a Raspbian Jessie install on an R-Pi 3b? > > > >Cheers, Gene Heskett > > You might want to try a different gtk theme. some support just v2, and > other just v3. Hard to find one you like that works right on all your > programs though. I am not a big fan of gtk3. For a while, programs > that used it would not get a window border or titlebar on my box. > I'll prowl around in that in the morning. I looked at several of them without noting more than minor color and color shading diffs earlier this evening. OTOH, I didn't have the glade editor on-screen at the time either. Duh...
Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
