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Fix "tool tip" colors in GNOME

Hi! I'd like to solve the known problem of barely-readable Virtuoso tooltip colors (white text in pink background) in GNOME. I repeatedly found the solution to fix it in KDE, but I was unable to find an equivalent procedure in GNOME. Has anybody been able to achieve this?

Thanks and regards, Jorge.

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Andrew Beckett over 6 years ago

Hi Jorge,

I found two bits of info related to this. Not sure if either fix the problem reliably because I didn't try it myself.

The first is another article: Toolbar tooltip (or mouseover popup message) fonts are hard to read"

The second was a case which had this summary:

I solved problem with white-on-black tooltips with 4 gtkrc files:

1. ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

/* tooltips */
@define-color tooltip_bg_color #ffffaf;
@define-color tooltip_fg_color #000000;

2. ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-color-scheme = "tooltip_bg_color:#ffffaf\ntooltip_fg_color:#000000"

3. ~/.gtkrc-2.0
include ".gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser"

4. ~/.gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser

style "gnome-color-chooser-tooltips"
{
bg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFAF"
fg[NORMAL] = "#000000"
}
widget "gtk-tooltip*" style "gnome-color-chooser-tooltips"

http://askubuntu.com/questions/70599/how-to-change-tooltip-background-color-in-unity

You can rename the /home/user/.config folder to resolve the issue.
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Andrew Beckett over 6 years ago

Hi Jorge,

I found two bits of info related to this. Not sure if either fix the problem reliably because I didn't try it myself.

The first is another article: Toolbar tooltip (or mouseover popup message) fonts are hard to read"

The second was a case which had this summary:

I solved problem with white-on-black tooltips with 4 gtkrc files:

1. ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

/* tooltips */
@define-color tooltip_bg_color #ffffaf;
@define-color tooltip_fg_color #000000;

2. ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-color-scheme = "tooltip_bg_color:#ffffaf\ntooltip_fg_color:#000000"

3. ~/.gtkrc-2.0
include ".gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser"

4. ~/.gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser

style "gnome-color-chooser-tooltips"
{
bg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFAF"
fg[NORMAL] = "#000000"
}
widget "gtk-tooltip*" style "gnome-color-chooser-tooltips"

http://askubuntu.com/questions/70599/how-to-change-tooltip-background-color-in-unity

You can rename the /home/user/.config folder to resolve the issue.
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dontpanic over 6 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

Hi Andrew; removing the "$HOME/.config/Trolltech.conf" file solved the problem! It changed the tooltip font color to black, which has good contrast against the pink background.

Thanks so much for your help!

Regards, Jorge.
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