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Lonnie Best
Asked: 2019-11-01 08:15:36 +0800 CST

Autokey-GTK is missing a typing cursor when I use Dark Themes

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I hoping that someone here can advise a work-around for this bug I'm experiencing in autokey-gtk.

When I use a dark theme, the phrase editor is missing its typing cursor.

I see no settings to adjust this and would appreciate any advice that would lead to me to being able to use Autokey-gtk with a dark theme, while also having a visible typing cursor.

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  1. Best Answer

    The issue is that autokey-gtk's phrase-editor is not properly inheriting the dark background prescribed by the GNOME theme. The phrase-editor's background-color remains white no matter what the GNOME theme prescribes.

    Conflictingly, the autokey-gtk phrase-editor is indeed properly inheriting the caret-color (typing cursor color) from the GMONE theme. The typing-cursor is not "missing"; it is there, but because its color is the same color as the background-color, it is invisible to the human eye.

    Until this theme-inheritance bug is fixed in autokey-gtk, a work-around would be to change the caret-color to a color that remains visible on the dark theme you're using. For example, you could change the caret-color to blue.

    * {caret-color: blue; }

    adding above line in the .css file of the source file made it blue color

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    for example to override Yaru-Dark theme

    navigate to /usr/share/themes/Yaru-Dark/gtk-3.20/gtk-dark.css and add the below line under the line @import url("resource:///com/ubuntu/themes/Yaru/3.20/gtk-dark.css");

    * {caret-color: blue; }

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    to apply this line * {caret-color: blue; } to all the theme files (globally) just put this line in the file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

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    reference: https://askubuntu.com/a/1159560/739431

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