White background w/ almost white text

[K4KDR]

This has been an issue since day-1 for me but I had been manually editing ui_mainWindow.py as a work-around. Also, it only affected the upper-left "IP Address" section. However, now with the new layout in commit 06a81e6, I will need to ask for assistance. The entire GUI is now a white background with text that is only slightly darker than white. (see screen shot below)

I am running Ubuntu 16.04, fully updated, with no special alterations or unusual hardware. I would greatly appreciate direction on how I might correct the display of the app to run with the darker background that I'm sure is intended. In fact, in a recent tweet from JA0CAW, I see that the dark background is displaying properly on his system.

Many thanks as always!

[K4KDR]

Update: if run with sudo (i.e., root), the GUI displays with a dark background. Not being terribly familiar with python, any help understanding why this happens would be appreciated and might help others.

(Editorial comment: unless root authority is required to run the app, many would probably prefer that root authority NOT be required to run the app)

Command run: sudo python minxss_beacon_decoder.py

[jmason86]

Give e8a03b3 a try. I used Qt Designer to enforce custom dark color palette in each window instead of allowing it to inherit (which only seems to work on Mac for some reason).

[K4KDR]

No apparent change in GUI white background. Info follows:

k4kdr@:~/MinXSS_Beacon_Decoder$ uname -a
Linux k4kdr-linux 4.8.0-49-generic #52~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 20 10:55:59 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

k4kdr@:~/MinXSS_Beacon_Decoder$ python --version
Python 2.7.12

k4kdr@:~/MinXSS_Beacon_Decoder$ git show --oneline -s --pretty=format:"%h, %ar, %ad : %s"
e8a03b3, 18 minutes ago, Wed Apr 26 09:59:01 2017 -0600 : Enforced dark color palette throughout for all platforms

k4kdr@:~/MinXSS_Beacon_Decoder$ python minxss_beacon_decoder.py 
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Crypto/Cipher/blockalgo.py:141: FutureWarning: CTR mode needs counter parameter, not IV
  self._cipher = factory.new(key, *args, **kwargs)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "minxss_beacon_decoder.py", line 499, in prepareToExit
    self.uploadData()
  File "minxss_beacon_decoder.py", line 486, in uploadData
    scp_upload.upload(self.bufferOutputBinaryFilename)
  File "/home/k4kdr/MinXSS_Beacon_Decoder/scp_upload.py", line 24, in upload
    scp.put(file, remote_path = directory)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scp.py", line 154, in put
    self._send_files(files)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scp.py", line 238, in _send_files
    self._recv_confirm()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scp.py", line 321, in _recv_confirm
    raise SCPException(asunicode(msg[1:]))
scp.SCPException: scp: Dropbox/minxss_dropbox/data/ham_data/: No such file or directory

[jmason86]

Try d128719, I used a different method for setting the background color.

[K4KDR]

Using commit 5a22838, a dark background now correctly appears in the GUI when run as a standard user!

k4kdr@:~/MinXSS_Beacon_Decoder$ python minxss_beacon_decoder.py 

... however, please note the side-effects:

-Options box: "Saving to logfile" window is very low-contrast -About tab: some text in images is very low-contrast

[jmason86]

5189c6a has better contrast for those things. Looks right on my system but I won't close until you confirm. Thanks!

[K4KDR]

Using commit 5189c6a, I believe that all text is clearly readable. There may be value in reviewing the following screen shots because if there is anything NOT visible on my machine, I would not know it. Looks great!

[jmason86]

Looks great! More layout improvements on the way and some new minor features. Closing issue.