Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. After messing with this issue for a week, I finally installed KDE and switched to it. Works fine (though a few screens, e.g., "Root Login") exhibit the Light-Lavender-On-White-BG that Dan reported above.)
When I originally posted this bug, I thought that certainly there must be some obscure gdm3 config file where admin can change "White" to "Black, "FFFFFF" to "000000", "Invisible" to "Visible", or some other such selection. Maybe a checkbox for "Make Text Readable". If so, it seems to have eluded us all. I installed "KDE-Full", but in retrospect, I think "KDE-Standard" would be a better choice. Not so much junk attached. Thanks again to all! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2ffcfe9e-9cc1-4a62-b800-ade273318...@lonestarbio.com