#1432 window and background colors

[Jeff Stern]

hello, on one box, i am running keepass 2.30 under KXStudio (a distro of Ubuntu at 14.04 LTS). I also have another box using latest KUbuntu 15.04, and same ver of keepass.

on the 15.04 box, the colors for keepass (under mono) are fine.

but under the 14.04 box, the background color are too "contrast-y", and the menu is not enough. i am including screenshots as attachments.

i have pulled my hair out on this until i am bald. i have tried the KDE system settings a million times. nothing seems to make a difference. ALL OTHER APPS CHANGE except this one. what am i doing wrong?

as you can see, the background is black on the windows.

on the menus, they are so light that they have no contrast against the text of the menu, and active menu items are virutal invisible, unless hovered over with a mouse.

how can i get the colors to follow the KDE (or at least Gnome) color attribs so that I can change them?

or at least, how can i change them ANY WAY?

any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

[Jeff Stern]

another snapshot. searching for my costco password: the background and text are both nearly the same (black) color, so it is impossible to see what is highlighted.

[Paul]

This is a Linux problem, not KeePass.
See this thread for a possible solution.
https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329221/thread/c9bdc4ee/#6a8a

cheers, Paul

[Jeff Stern]

thank you. i read that thread and tried the fix and it did work. i do appreciate the heads-up to that link, since i had already searched the bug list several times but never got to that thread.

i do wish mono did use whatever system color themes (KDE, Gnome, etc.) are currently being used in Linux environ. oh, well. nothing's perfect! :-) thx, paul.

however, perhaps i will look more at keepassx or kpcli too .. maybe they are more linux friendly toolkits..