Anyway, the problem is already fixed for the upcoming TDE R14.0.4: https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1375 Cheers -- Slávek On Tuesday 20 of September 2016 16:23:52 A M wrote: > The issue was solved, thanks to the most useful comments by three list > participants. The first advice, by Gerhard Zintel, was a suggestion to > simply uncheck one of the preferences via the TDE Control Center: > > > > *" I had the same issue before. I cannot clearly remember but try to > un-check "Apply colors to non-TDE applications" in TDE Control Center > => Appearence & Themes => Colors. "* > > That immediately worked, thanks Gerhard! But then the next advice came > from Nick Koretsky which also commented on the Gerhard's advice: > > > > > > > > > > *That's a bad solution - this checkbox is unfortunately named, it > should be named "apply styles' - it govern not only colors, but also > button styles, button placements and fonts in gtk apps The correct > solution is to add following to you .xsession file ( sleep 10 xrdb -all > -query|sed -e 's#[A-Z_]*BACKGROUND# gray90#' \* > > > > *-e 's#[A-Z_]*FOREGROUND# Black#' \ -e 's#[A-Z_]*HIGHLIGHT# White#' \ > -e 's#[A-Z_]*LOWLIGHT# Black#'|xrdb -merge ) &* > > I tried this as well, and it works and seems in fact to be more > appropriate for our environment. I've applied it by adding to the > system-wide script that is executed at login and does it one time per > session. It works pretty well (and has no impact on gtk applications). > So we'll stick to this method. > > Finally, another advice came from "iadest": > > > > > > > > > > > > *Hello Try to edit ~/.Xresourced adding: *.WINDOW_FOREGROUND: black > Then execute command: xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources I had similar problems > with Perl/Tk and *.BACKGROUND color. Maybe this solution will work for > Emacs too.* > *MCbx* > > As this solution was basically quite similar to that of Nick's which > was already nicely implemented, I did not try this.. > > In any case, these advices saved me a day. Thanks a lot for all those > who replied! > > Andy. -- Slávek --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting