GIMP tooltips getting white text on white background

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Hello!

I have installed Leap 42.1 - KDE desktop.

When I am firing up GIMP (which I understand is a native GTK2 application) behaves weirdly. When I am hovering mouse over the tool icons, the tooltips that show up have white text on of white or almost transparent background, making the tooltips completely unreadable. Anyone knows a workaround for this problem? I looked up the web and found a solution for the problem but I guess it is targeted for Ubuntu users. Here is the link to the solution.

Unfortunately, I didn’t find the file that has been mentioned in this solution and hence, I am left wondering about how to solve this problem.

Any kind of help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Sankalan

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Okay, just installed GNOME desktop environment. Installed a few GTK themes including Numix theme. Switched to KDE desktop, went to system settings >> Application Style >> GNOME Application Style (GTK) and selected Numix Theme for GTK 2 applications and it fixed my problem.

Thought it might help someone else but my solution is not really a good one because people with less hard disk space may not want to install GNOME desktop environment and eat up precious space. I could afford that and so did that.

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Thanks for the solution. I didn’t install Gnome desktop but only the Numix Theme. This didn’t work unfortunately. But hen I tried the Clearlooks theme which came in the default install and it shows tooltips!

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Hi,

If you configure your gtk themes in systemsettings5, it will create a .gtkrc-2.0 file in your /home/user
It is a hidden file so you have to enable the show hidden file in dolphin or equivalent.
That is what the link is pointing to you. With the gtk3 I did not tried to look-up so others might give you another pointer
regarding that.

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There are also other GTK applications that show this problem. One is PDFMod.
I would prefer to stay with the GTK theme “Breeze” for consistency with my KDE Plasma 5 desktop.
Would it be possible to fix this theme to avoid the problem? Is it something that comes from OpenSUSE itself or is it upstream from KDE?

Thank you
Cris

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Well, I think you can by adjusting the colors in plasma5.

systemsettings5-color

might do the trick for you, but not 100%.

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Hi conram, thank you for your reply!

I may be wrong, but I think this will only adjust the color in the Breeze KDE theme, not the equivalent GTK theme.

Cris

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You’re not wrong, you have to adjust qt to partner with gtk colors if you don’t want to play with the gtkrc or css
in the gtk themes. That’s why I said you can’t achieve a 100% accuracy with those two.

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This workaround works for me: Appearance -> Colors -> Options: Disable “Apply colors to non-QT-applications”

Thanks to: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1591107#p1591107

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Karut, Wow…I have been messing with settings for over 3 weeks trying to figure this problem out. That fixed it for me!

Thank You very much, my system tweaking is finished for now!

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Similar situation with GnuCash.
It has taken a lot of playing to get ‘hover text’ under cursor to be white on black and not white on white!
(Thanks for Gnome theme point.)

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I Wrote too soon. The adjustment did not survive a reboot! So currently back to a white on white hover text! Still experimenting, as the above hints doe not contain explicit instructions.