i'll have to attach a screenshot for example, but when i IM in pidgin, the proper colouring is displayed. however, when i enter an XMPP(/jabber) MUC, the background stays a static colour and does not seem to obey the settings defined- additionally, the chat text (but not the nick colours) seem to follow the same text colour as the background EXCEPT- here's the odd part- if it linewraps over to the next line. yeah, weird stuff. 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PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS (screenshot coming in a few minutes)
Created attachment 202222 [details] screenshot of the MUC also, when i select text- sometimes it shows as selected and other times it does not.
Created attachment 202223 [details] screenshot of im you can see the contrast of the selected text here as well. take note that the colour scheme presented here is the "normal" desired colour scheme.
this bug still exists in net-im/pidgin-2.6.5
Try to read the following: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#HowdoIchangethefontPidginusesThebackgroundcolor May be you have $HOME/.purple/gtkrc* ?
[Sat 10/01/16 03:55 CST][pts/5][x86_64/linux-gnu/2.6.31-gentoo-r6][4.3.10] <bts@praetorian:~/.purple> zsh 11284 % pwd;ls|grep gtk /home/bts/.purple [Sat 10/01/16 03:56 CST][pts/5][x86_64/linux-gnu/2.6.31-gentoo-r6][4.3.10] <bts@praetorian:~/.purple> zsh 11285 [1] % nope. like i said, i couldn't care less about the colours. what DOES bother me is the text /not showing up/, even when selected.
Ok try to create new user and start pidgin from there. Such way we separate if this is a system wide setting that affects or user specific. It highly probable that color somewhere wrongly set. If this is user specific what do you have in ~/.gtkrc-2.0?
(In reply to comment #6) > Ok try to create new user and start pidgin from there. Such way we separate if > this is a system wide setting that affects or user specific. It highly probable > that color somewhere wrongly set. If this is user specific what do you have in > ~/.gtkrc-2.0? > AHA. i found the bug. it's most definitely related to the "XChat Chats" plugin for pidgin! i created the new user, started with a clean slate, and wasn't able to reproduce it, so i tried playing with the pidgin theme plugin, gtk+ pidgin plugin, etc. and then kept going through with every plugin that alters appearance behaviour. (go figure it was third to last on the list)... disabling the XChat Chats plugin causes the issue to no longer happen. which is fine; i'm starting to prefer the pidgin layout for chats better anyways. however, this is still an issue and should be reported. does that get passed upstream, or is this a gentoo thing? if i had to guess, i think it's upstream..
I'm glad you've managed to localize problem. Yes, report this xchat-chat upstream please. And for Gentoo we can nothing to do at the moment so I'll close this bug upstream. If there will be fix available I'll happily apply. Also it'll be great if you post upstream bug report reference here. Thanks for report.
Resolving per previous comment.
