On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:52:26AM +0930, Brian wrote: > > Suse 9.2 with updates - On AMD64 > > All of my gtk applications have this problem. The menu list has a black > background. Dragging the cursor over them reveals the menu text just enough > to read the list. All of the programs work ok. > Background: Last year I tried to upgrade to a recent version of Gnucash. It > required a new gtk2. The menu problem started at that point. I downgraded > gtk and dropped the upgrade and all was well. Now I have installed the new > Gnucash 2.0 and its dependencies. It is very good software. But the menu problem has > returned. > It affects Gimp, Synaptic, Gnucash, gtkam, GQview etc. > > While running "smart --gui" I get this error. Is this something to look at? > > (smart:30596): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_back_pixmap(): pixmap must > have a colormap I recall this problem on some older SuSE -- 9.2 could be -- but everything I remember about the solution is that some library in the Gtk+ stack was too old or too new, or otherwise mismatched with the rest, and it was solved by upgrading or downgrading something. Unfortunately I can't recall which library needed to be upgraded or downgraded. Yeti -- Anonyms eat their boogers. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list