Re: Strange colors in gnome menus after Xorg upgrade

[Brandon Kuczenski <brandon 301south net>]

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:

> I am using Gnome (i think 2.12.3) on a Debian system.
>
> I just decided to upgrade my old XFree86 server to Xorg, since apparently 
> that's what we're supposed to do and I thought it would solve some video card 
> problems (it didn't -- but rendering is faster now).. then I upgraded gnome 
> from 2.12.2 to 2.12.3 -- it only upgraded a few gnome packages and not all of 
> them (there are several that still list 2.10.x version numbers, and many more 
> that list, e.g. 2.12.1).
>
> Anyway, everything seems to work fine... except the gnome 'foot' menu, tabs 
> in gnome-terminal, and popup dialog boxes all have very peculiar colors.  The 
> foot menu is the most bizarre: every time I click on it it seems to come up a 
> different color.  Everything is supposed to be gray but it comes up, 
> sometimes deep blue, sometimes pale yellow-faded, sometimes black (with black 
> text, of course)... also, the borders of windows and things are occasionally 
> strange colors.  Everything seems to work normally except for this.

A further discovery (this substantially reduces the problem's scope): it 
seems to only affect the "Smokey Blue" theme.  I've just changed themes to 
avoid the problem.. should I report this to some theme czar?

-Brandon