Right click menus background white when using Ambiance theme

[Mateusz Stachowski]

Now that the Bug #1118838 has been fixed in Saucy I think that there is still one thing that should be changed for Ambiance.

When you right click in Firefox on a webpage the menu background is white the same goes for it's tabs. Also right click menu on any window decoration has white background.

To make those backgrounds black:

1. Open /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc with your prefered text editor
2. Search for line containing: style "menu"
3. Add this after: = "dark"
4. The whole line should look like this: style "menu" = "dark" {
5. Save the changes and change the theme to Radiance and back to Ambiance to apply new background color

[Mateusz Stachowski (stachowski-mateusz)]

This change is also needed to make right click menus background black in Chromium and Chrome web browsers. With current ubuntu-themes package they are white on Ambiance theme.

[Mateusz Stachowski (stachowski-mateusz)]

If these change should ever be considered to include in 14.04 LTS it needs a one more edit to be made to the mentioned file.

This line should be commented out with #

widget "*.gtk-combobox-popup-menu.*" style "menuitem_text_is_fg_color_workaround"

otherwise the menus in some programs are unreadable. GParted and Tomboy are examples of this problem.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/395052/consistency-of-gtk2-menus-with-gtk3

[Mateusz Stachowski (stachowski-mateusz)]

Also there is a discussion about inconsistencies of Ambiance theme on discourse.

http://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/inconsistencies-in-windows-with-ambiance-theme/757/16