Ultimately, this remains a bug, because Autokey-GTK's phrase-editor does not inherit a dark background from dark themes, yet it does inherit cursor-color from dark themes.
Compare this to Autokey's script editor, it inherits both background- color and caret-color from dark themes. Autokey-GTK's phrase-editor keeps a white background no matter what the theme says to do. Yet it complies with the caret-color specified by the themes. Since the dark theme calls for a white cursor, white on white makes the caret-cursor invisible. I was given a work-around here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1185289/ The work-around was to change the dark theme's caret color to a color that would show up on both light and dark backgrounds. Since I'm using the Yaru-dark theme now, I changed the cursor color to red by appending the following text to the file /usr/share/themes/Yaru- dark/gtk-3.20/.gtk-dark.css : * { padding: 0; -GtkToolButton-icon-spacing: 4; -GtkTextView-error-underline-color: #cc0000; -GtkScrolledWindow-scrollbar-spacing: 0; -GtkToolItemGroup-expander-size: 11; -GtkWidget-text-handle-width: 20; -GtkWidget-text-handle-height: 24; -GtkDialog-button-spacing: 4; -GtkDialog-action-area-border: 0; outline-color: alpha(currentColor,0.3); outline-style: dashed; outline-offset: -3px; outline-width: 1px; -gtk-outline-radius: 3px; -gtk-secondary-caret-color: #456789; caret-color: red; } The key line above is caret-color: red; A similar work-around could be applied to the "Adwaita-dark" theme. This work-around is not ideal, because all applications have to have this red caret-color, just so I can get Autokey-gtk to work with a dark theme. Perhaps someone can modify the autokey-gtk code so that its phrase- editor acts like its script-editor with respect to inheriting both background-color AND caret-color from the GNOME 3 themes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1849992 Title: Phrase-Editor has no typing cursor when using Gnome3 dark themes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-tweaks/+bug/1849992/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
