#17 Change cursor colour for the text tool

[Óscar Guajardo]

Hi.
When inserting text the cursor is black, and since I mostly use that colour for the pen, I cannot see the text I enter while I'm typing. Is there a way to change this colour? I attach a screen cap; the selected line says "some other text". Of course, changing the colour of the pen works, but I really want my text to be mostly black.

Thanks!

[Denis Auroux]

I don't understand why the text ends up being on a black background. On
my system, the text editing box is on a white background when the text
is edited, regardless of the background color of the paper. Do you have
a black theme configured in GTK (more specifically GTK2)?

Regardless, when the paper background is solid (not a PDF or an image),
it would make sense for the text box background to match the paper. I'll
update the GIT repository on sourceforget with a quick patch to do this.

Anyway: for the scenario where you are writing on a solid colored paper
as in your example, re-download xournal from the GIT repository
https://sourceforge.net/p/xournal/code/ci/master/tree/
and recompile.

But I recommend using a non-dark (or less dark) GTK2 theme for when you
annotate PDFs, because I have no way of knowing what color the
background of a PDF file is, so those text boxes will continue to use
the GTK2 theme color as xournal cannot figure out what the page is like;
sadly, a GTK2 text editing box cannot be transparent.

Denis

[Óscar Guajardo]

Hello, Denis.

Thank you for your answer.

I am using the Adwaita Dark GTK2 theme, so I'm going to look for another one which is less dark.

In any case: are there any special options I should use when I recompile the program?

Thanks again!