Font unreadable on xfce4-panel applets

[gruentee]

When hovering over the applets, the letters become readable again. Affected applets: Date/Time applet, power manager applet

See attached screenshot.

[oberon-manjaro]

Hm. I don't know what exactly can be different with your settings, but I don't see that issue:

[gruentee]

@oberon2007: I tried it on my work computer (apparently same config) and it works fine. Will have to check again.

[oberon-manjaro]

Try to reinstall the their package! Maybe your panel.rc file got screwed somehow...? :wink:

[gruentee]

Where is this file located?

I tried re-installing, deleting ~/.config/xfce4-panel folder, killing/restarting the panel – none of it helped.

[oberon-manjaro]

The file lives in /usr/share/themes/Vertex-Maia/gtk-2.0/panel.rc and will be rewritten when you reinstall the theme. Maybe a stupid question but, uhm ... are you sure you have set the correct theme? :wink: Have you tried switching themes anyway? What happens then?

[gruentee]

OK, I misunderstood: I tried reinstalling the panel, because I suspected said file to be part of its configuration. Re-installing vertex-maia-themes package doesn't help either.

The dark versions of the theme are not affected: fonts display correctly.

[oberon-manjaro]

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/xfce4-power-manager-1-6-badly-visible-on-panel/11537/12 I don't think this is an issue of the theme actually. Seems to be related to the panel and the plugins themselves ...

[Photon89]

I got a reply concerning this issue: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13355 Surprisingly it turned out that it is necessary to fix it within the theme by adding

#xfce4-power-manager-plugin { color: #ededed; }

to gtk-3.0/gtk.css. Tested it, works for me. Don't know if the time applet still shows this problem (at least I cannot reproduce it) but probably it would need a similar line.

[gruentee]

@Photon89 Thanks for the info.

I just tested again and xfce-power-manager-plugin shows the correct font color now (without any stylesheet changes), xfce4-datetime-plugin not though.

[Photon89]

Right, I can confirm that, I didn't have the right plugin installed previously. For some reason a similar line as above

#xfce4-datetime-plugin { color: #ededed; }

does not fix the problem...

[oberon-manjaro]

it this solved?

[Photon89]

Not yet. You can test it by installing the xfce4-datetime-plugin package (it is not included in the standard install).

[oberon-manjaro]

I don't have an active xfce install and cannot test this - in principle I'm afraid it's gonna be hard to provide gtk3 properties for every xfce4-plugin out there. If someone wants to research the details, no problem... 😉!

[Photon89]

Another gtk3 panel plugin, xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, has wrong colors:

edit: This seems to have got fixed at some point, at least right now end of December 2017) the icon is fine!

[Photon89]

Seems to be solved now as well?

[oberon-manjaro]

The issue with text is solved. No idea yet what can be done about the icons. It works with some icon-themes. Problem with others ...

[Photon89]

Hmm, which icon themes and plugins are affected by this?