Selection of text not visible anymore

[Arthur Borsboom]

Xpad used to make selected text visible by changing the background of the selected text. Since a couple of months, it seems not to be working anymore (dependecy change?).

[Arthur Borsboom (arthurborsboom)]

If you experience this issue, a possible workaround might be to select 'Use theme colors' in the preferences.

[Luiscuadrado123 (luiscuadrado123)]

i have the same problem!!

i use diferents colors in any note... and only in the "theme colors" the selection is visible.

[Arthur Borsboom (arthurborsboom)]

GTK drives me nuts.

There is often something broken, a lot of things get deprecated and because of these two, you have to keep migrating your existing application, which brings a lot of work.

This time, something is again broken, what was working before. I bet it has to do with a new GTK version 3.20 (on my system).

Which GTK version do you have on your system?

[Luiscuadrado123 (luiscuadrado123)]

hello

i use Manjaro Linux.. up to date. (distro based on ArchLinux, a rolling-release disto).

I have installed GTK3 version 3.20.9 and GTK2 2.24.30 both from the EXTRA repository.

[Arthur Borsboom (arthurborsboom)]

My assumption starts to gets to be more likely right... GTK developers seem to have broken it again.

https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2015/11/20/a-gtk-update

[Doug Denault (dtd2718)]

for the xpad guys. the FreeBSD port has the same issue

[caetano veyssières (chameleonscales)]

I'm having the same issue on the latest stable release of Debian XFCE edition (Debian 9.8 XFCE 4.12).

Checking "Use colors from theme" in the preferences fixed it but I would like to be able to have custom colors.

[caetano veyssières (chameleonscales)]

I tested on Debian 10 and now it works.

[Arthur Borsboom (arthurborsboom)]

Hi Caetano,

Good to hear that the issue is resolved in Debian 10.
I am guessing that Debian 10 uses a newer version of Xpad then Debian 9.8.

Which version is included in Debian 10?

[caetano veyssières (chameleonscales)]

it does indeed use a more recent version (5.x) but I tested the latest trunk version on Debian 9.9 and the issue was still there, so I guess there are some GTK updates included in Debian 10 that were also necessary to fix the issue.

[Arthur Borsboom (arthurborsboom)]

Okay. Thanks for testing and your feedback.