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I am running inkscape on kubuntu 15.10 and the tootips are unreadable. The are white on a light gray background. Everything is quite vanilla.

Is there a fix? Or a configuration setting?

Thanks. --Len

I am running fvwm as my KDEWM. I checked and if I use fvwm directly (not under PLASMA) the tooltips are OK. I installed the menu package and tried accessing inkscape using the generated Debian menus. The tooltips are OK from there; however, when I launch inkscape from the KDE menu or the command line, I still have the white-on-light-grey problem. At any rate, no longer a show stopper.

LenB
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Disabling "apply colors to non Qt applications" worked for me.

If you do not want KDE to override your GTK settings, select Colors -> Options in the System Settings and disable the checkbox Apply colors to non-Qt applications

Sources: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355540 https://classicforum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=29859.0

Before:

Before

After:

After

Carlos
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For me(on Kubuntu 15.10), it worked by using Oxygen-gtk theme for GTK2 as well as GTK3. Orion and Pearl themes did not work. Now the interface and tool tips, both look native.

Sushanta Sahu
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Appending the following text to ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4 worked for me:

style "gnome-color-chooser-tooltips"
{
bg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFAF"
fg[NORMAL] = "#000000"
}
widget "gtk-tooltip*" style "gnome-color-chooser-tooltips"

I found it in this discussion.

Jasper de Vries
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Mark Dominus
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Tryout this workaround:

  • remove line (about 38) "gtk-tooltip" style "ToolTip" from ~/.config/gtkrc-2.0
  • restart the gtk-application (no display manager)
Philippe Gachoud
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Same issue on Kubuntu 18.04. Solution is now in System settings > Appearance > Application Style > GNOME Application Style. Check "Prefer Dark GTK3 Theme".

Archie Paulson
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