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Old 08-18-2019, 06:53 AM   #1
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Dropdown menu text is gray on gray (Linux Mint) [SOLVED]
Someone on this mobileread forum suggested I download and install Calibre from the Calibre website. So that's what I did. But now, the dropdown menus in Calibre are gray text on gray background. In other words, I can't see any words.

https://i.imgur.com/n1Ulse7.png

I'm using Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon.
Calibre is version 3.46.0.
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Old 08-18-2019, 07:19 AM   #2
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does the text appear if you mouse over the menu items?
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Old 08-18-2019, 07:20 AM   #3
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And you appear to have enabled th system theme, which is unsupported in linux. Do not do that and you should be fine.
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does the text appear if you mouse over the menu items?
No, it doesn't appear.
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Old 08-18-2019, 07:26 AM   #5
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And you appear to have enabled th system theme, which is unsupported in linux. Do not do that and you should be fine.
How do I do as you suggest, sir?

I'd prefer a dark/black theme, just like my Linux Mint's theme.
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Make sure you dont have the CALIBRE_USE_SYSTEM_THEME environmnet variable set.
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So in terminal...
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droopy@desktop ~ $ export CALIBRE_USE_SYSTEM_THEME=0
droopy@desktop ~ $ calibre
QGtkStyle could not resolve GTK. Make sure you have installed the proper libraries.
QGtkStyle could not resolve GTK. Make sure you have installed the proper libraries.
QFont::setStretch: Parameter '0' out of range
Now I see the text in the dropdown menus. (Screenshot)

But is there a way to get a dark theme for the program, sir?
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I fixed the gray-text-on-gray-menu problem.
I went to etc/profile.d/ and i saw "calibre.sh". I probably created that file many months ago and forgot about it. it had one line in it: export CALIBRE_USE_SYSTEM_THEME=1.

I just renamed the file to calibre.shBACKUP and logged out and logged in, and now the text is readable via MainMintMenu (Windows Key)
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Old 08-18-2019, 09:15 PM   #9
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Getting your system theme working with a clibre binary install is not going to be easy/possible. For that you will have to use the distro calibre, with the system theme.
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