When I select text in Abiword (2.0.5) I can't see that it is selected. Text looks exactly the same selected or not. I know it is actually selecting the text because when I cut or copy+paste, the charactors manipulated are the ones I intended to select. Link goes to forum posting Changing the background color shows the the text is being highlighted white. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open Abiword under KDE 2.Highlight typed text Actual Results: Text looks exactly the same selected or not. Expected Results: Highlighted the text System uname: 2.6.5-mm1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.ccccom.com http://212.219.247.10/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.11/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.12/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.14/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.20/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.16/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
*** Bug 49551 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
probably a theme problem. Try another gtk/gnome theme.
It was a theme problem I was using Plastik style with plastik colors Changed style and colors and that fixed it
closing per above comments
