At Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:12:52 +0100 (CET) Lucio Chiappetti <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: > > > I am noting a funny (and sort of annoying behaviour) when using firefox > > and acrobat reader in a fvmw session under suse 11.3 (newly installed). > > Apparently also openoffice is showing the same behaviour. > > > The topmost menu bar (File Edit ...) has white text onto black > > background, The remaining menu bars and widget are normal (black on > > light grey). > > For firefox there is a partial workaround. I always hated "themes" but I > found a sort of lightweight themes called "personas". If one goes to the > site where one can load them, one can also test them. They appear to > replace the menu bar and other bars with some pictured background. My > workaround was to choose a "persona" called "simple fox" (useless to say, > no picture, just solid gray :-)). > > This makes me think that all those applications are NOT using a specific > fg/bg colour for the top menu bar, but leaving it somehow transparent > letting some w.m. default shining through. I suppose in KDE what shines > through is determined by the default KDE theme ... how could I set a > similar "super-default" in fvwm ? a plain *background: and *foreground: > in .Xdefaults is no good. To make FireFox (and other GNome-flavored applications) 'play nice' with FVWM, I fire up a minimal bit of GNome: /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon. By firing this up with a properly setup ~/.gconf<mumble> directory/files, I can get FireFox to be set up with the proper Gnome 'theme' (I created a minimual theme that suited). (I actually use a 'session manager' I wrote in Tcl/Tk -- the session manager fires up fvwm and the gnome-settings-daemon.) > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / [email protected] Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments
