On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 13:27:51 -0700, George Langford wrote: > This has happened before ... Firefox and Thunderbird today started > showing selected menu items as white text on a white background. I > could rant for days about the stupidity of this, but what's even > more exasperating is that it's next to impossible to find the place > wherin I can change this in the preferences. > > I also have Mozilla's old browser, and it's not doing it. > > The "theme" of my desktop may be the culprit, but I haven't a clue > what my default is, nor what will happend when I pick another one.
Let's see if we can find the setting. Please post the output of: grep 'bg\[PRELIGHT\]' ~/.gtk* (Run this command as your normal user.) > The change occurred after a series of resets that I had to invoke in > order to escape from lockups resulting from attempts to open a > large file (another question I had today). > > Oh, yeah. It has been suggested that I disable the screensaver in > order to avoid these lockups; this new menu behavior first became > apparent after doing that. > > Thanks, > George -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]