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Cannot read :observer processes tab (grey font on white background)

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digoio

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Cannot read :observer processes tab (grey font on white background)

running :observer.start from iex the processes tab shows font with light grey color that is hard to read. The system tab and others look normal (black) but various tabs with text look like this. I assume this is caused my Manjaro XFCE desktop dark theme. Anyone know why, and how to change/configure it, other than perhaps changing my desktop theme? thanks.

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hq1

hq1

Sorry for kicking a dead horse here.. Is it possible to enforce a light theme via env vars somehow? This is driving me nuts.

Edit: found something brutal, yet better than status quo:

nogtkrc
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fuelen

fuelen

It is a known issue https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-114

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gabrielgiordano

gabrielgiordano

Setting the GTK2_RC_FILES environment variable with the current theme /gtk-2.0/gtkrc did the trick!

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Just for reference, at my fish.config settings I wrote:
set -gx GTK_RC_FILES ~/.themes/Adapta-Nokto/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

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outlog

outlog

looks like the grey/blueish color happens right here, and then probably white somewhere else (so some kind of PR against otp should be feasible, though observer looks fine here on mac:/):

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OvermindDL1

OvermindDL1

/me sighs

Figured, you never ever hard-code colors unless you hardcode both the foreground and background… >.>

Though preferably always use system colors so you don’t get something horrifying like garish white on a nice dark system.

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