UI issue: Titlebar is black

[ghost]

I'm trying to figure out why nvpy is showing up with a fairly ugly white-on-black titlebar. It's not on any of the screenshots I see on the project page, and playing with the color settings and theme doesn't seem to have any effect.

At first, I thought something was messed up with my gtk theme, but then realized nvpy only uses Tk.

Any ideas how to make the menus black-on-white?

Thanks.

[yuuki0xff]

Thank you for reporting the issue.

Not just the menu bar. The border color (?) of the status bar is also black. I seems that the default color of some UI components is black in your environment.

I would like to investigate. Could you tell me the following information:

• OS name and version
• nvPY version
• Notable settings for nvPY and OS

[ghost]

Hi! Here's some basic system info: https://url.privatepastebin.com/2g

Versions:

$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    n/a
Distributor ID: ManjaroLinux
Description:    Manjaro Linux
Release:    21.1.1
Codename:   Pahvo
$ uname -rm
5.10.60-1-MANJARO x86_64
$ pacman -Qi nvpy |head -5
Name            : nvpy
Version         : 2.1.0-2
Description     : Simplenote syncing note-taking application, but uglier and cross-platformerer.
Architecture    : any
URL             : https://github.com/cpbotha/nvpy

(It also says nvpy 2.10 within the app)

Dependencies' versions:

$ pacman -Qi $(pacman -Qi nvpy |grep ^Depends.On |cut -f2 -d:) |grep -e ^Name -e ^Version
Name            : python
Version         : 3.9.6-1
Name            : python-docutils
Version         : 0.17.1-1
Name            : python-markdown
Version         : 3.3.4-1
Name            : python-setuptools
Version         : 1:57.4.0-1
Name            : python-simplenote
Version         : 2.1.4-1
Name            : tk
Version         : 8.6.11.1-1

My nvpy config: https://url.privatepastebin.com/2h

Note: my config is kept in a ccrypt-encrypted file, and is only left unencrypted on ram-based tmp storage momentarily as the program is started. However, I've tried decrypting the config onto disk, and I get the same result.

Please let me know what other info I can provide to be helpful.

Much thanks!

[ghost]

More background: My desktop environment (window manager, really) is i3-gaps, which is pretty minimalistic. I also have a laptop running i3-gaps, and nvpy looks the same there. I have another laptop running i3-gaps as well, I'll check nvpy there in a couple days.

[yuuki0xff]

I succeeded in reproducing your reported issue with the Manjaro Linux i3 edition.

The system seems to have a dark theme by default. Xresouces also define the default background color as dark. You can regain the default behavior by removing *background and *foreground attributes from Xresouces.

I don't immediately know how to change the background color for just the nvPY. For the time being, please try the following methods.

# ~/.Xresources

# Comment out the default color settings.
#*background: #222d31
#*foreground: #d8d8d8

# Reload configuration.
xrdb <~/.Xresources

[ghost]

Looks perfect now, thank you!

I'd be interested if there's a way to set the background and foreground colors for just Tk in .Xresources. I wasn't able to find any leads online. Tk*background didn't work. I even tried *Tk*ackground*