Turning off high contrast does not revert the desktop icons' appearance

[Bob Reed]

When going to Settings -> Universal Access and selecting "High Contrast" to view the difference in appearance, then switching "High Contrast" to off, the icons do not return to their normal appearance. I did not find a place in this bug submission interface to submit attachments or I would show you screen capture of the changes in the icon appearance.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-26.30-generic 5.4.30
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Apr 25 10:48:21 2020
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: focal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop) [8086:3e92] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop) [1458:d000]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-03-31 (24 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20200330)
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H370 WIFI
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-26-generic root=UUID=8d24e3f8-c08c-444a-8467-4f9473fa4a22 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/05/2019
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F14
dmi.board.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.board.name: H370N WIFI-CF
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Default string
dmi.chassis.version: Default string
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrF14:bd06/05/2019:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnH370WIFI:pvrDefaultstring:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnH370NWIFI-CF:rvrx.x:cvnDefaultstring:ct3:cvrDefaultstring:
dmi.product.family: Default string
dmi.product.name: H370 WIFI
dmi.product.sku: Default string
dmi.product.version: Default string
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.101-2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 20.0.4-2ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 20.0.4-2ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.8-2ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.1.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20200226-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the settings is correctly changed, that's the desktop view that fails to refresh

[Bob Reed (rreed1913)]

The purpose of the setting is to change the desktop view. Changing the setting should force a display refresh. So I'm not sure I would change the status to "Invalid".

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> The purpose of the setting is to change the desktop view.

No, the purpose is to change the theme, it's used in the desktop view but also in other graphical elements

The issue has been marked invalid for gnome-control-center because it's not a bug in that component, it's still open and valid for the desktop icons

[DiegoWoitasen (diego-woitasen)]

I have a similar problem in 20.10. I doesn't revert completely. I have some menues and some applications in high contrast, and I can't fix this even after reboot.

is there a work around?

[as (ip413as3)]

The same problem here: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy, 5.15.0-40-generic