Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:52:43 -0400
> hobie@rumormillnews.com wrote:
>
>>Following recent 'buster' move to 'stable' I got wild psychedelic colors
>>on my XFCE desktop, making it nearly impossible to read anything
>>on-screen.
>>
>>Normally I'd have display set for 1024x768. I've found I can get normal
>>color on the GUI if I switch to 1600x900. However, even then, if I
>> switch
>>to console (F1-F6) or if the screensaver comes on, on return the
>>psychedelic colors are back. If I log out / log in to the desktop,
>> normal
>>colors return with the 1600x900 setting only.
>>
>>AMD A10-7860K Radeon R7. ASUSTEK A68HM-K motherboard.
>>firmware-linux-free and firmware-linux-nonfree are installed.
>>
>>Is this a bug? Is there a fix? I'd like to get my normal colors and
>>normal resolution back. Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>
>
> Try a different theme. The switch from GTK-2 to GTK-3 results in a mess
> if the wrong theme is used.
>
Thanks. :) Using GTK-ChTheme (which says it's for GTK+ 2, but I don't see
a similar utility for GTK+ 3) I switched to Xfce 4.4 but got no
improvement. Should I be approaching this theme change some other way?
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