Re: gfx Rodeo redux
On Saturday 11 February 2017 19:33:26 Christopher Barry wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 19:23:24 -0500
>
> Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> 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
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