Text in settings is hard to read because bad contrast

Hello everyone,

both in the Manjaro settings manager and in the options in Texmaker the font color has nearly the same color as the background:

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This is, as you might see, quite annoying. Do you have any idea what the reason for that could be?

Thanks in advance!

David

PS:

Here is some information about my software and hardware:

(base) manjaro% inxi -Fazy
System:
  Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.9-x86_64 
  root=UUID=66d75c2d-755b-4b7b-a0bf-f1d712c4597c rw quiet splash apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: GNOME 3.38.3 tk: GTK 3.24.26 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 3.38.2.1 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P8B75-M LX PLUS v: Rev X.0x 
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 0501 date: 10/10/2012 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-3330 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Ivy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 21 
  L2 cache: 6 MiB 
  flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 23953 
  Speed: 1596 MHz min/max: 1600/3200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1596 2: 1596 
  3: 1596 4: 1596 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics 
  vendor: ASUSTeK P8H77-I driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  chip ID: 8086:0152 class ID: 0380 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK106 [GeForce GTX 650 Ti] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia 
  v: 460.56 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:11c6 
  class ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.10 compositor: gnome-shell driver: 
  loaded: nvidia resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo> 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 650 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.56 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio 
  vendor: ASUSTeK P8Z77-V LX driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  chip ID: 8086:1e20 class ID: 0403 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK106 HDMI Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0e0b class ID: 0403 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.16-1-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8192CE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: rtl8192ce v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8178 
  class ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: ASUSTeK P8 series driver: r8169 v: kernel port: c000 bus ID: 04:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 class ID: 0200 
  IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 53.05 GiB (5.7%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Hitachi model: HDS721010DLE630 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: A650 scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 48.83 GiB size: 47.81 GiB (97.92%) used: 15.31 GiB (32.0%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda9 maj-min: 8:9 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7 
  ID-3: /home raw size: 50.63 GiB size: 49.59 GiB (97.94%) 
  used: 37.73 GiB (76.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda10 maj-min: 8:10 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/sda8 maj-min: 8:8 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 34 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 40% 
Info:
  Processes: 251 Uptime: 3h 26m wakeups: 0 Memory: 7.64 GiB 
  used: 4.74 GiB (62.0%) Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 
  pacman: 1414 lib: 395 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 
  running in: io.elementary.t inxi: 3.3.01 
(base) manjaro% mhwd -l [optional: detailed view] [optional: --pci or --usb connection]
zsh: bad pattern: [optional:
(base) manjaro% mhwd -l [optional: detailed view] [optional: --pci or --usb connection]
zsh: bad pattern: [optional:
(base) manjaro% mhwd -l                                                                
> 0000:01:00.0 (0300:10de:11c6) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    video-nvidia-390xx            2020.11.30               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
            video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI


> 0000:04:00.0 (0200:10ec:8168) Network controller Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         network-r8168            2016.04.20                true            PCI


> 0000:00:02.0 (0380:8086:0152) Display controller Intel Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI

I don’t have this issue with settings manager(and others).
Maybe this helps; there is a solution of a similar problem:

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Have you tried changing the Style setting in Qt5 settings (Qt5 Configuration Tool)? I see it in my applications menu on xfce. I have no idea if it is included in the Gnome edition. You can run from terminal by typing qt5ct. My qt applications look better now when I changed style to “Fusion”. I think it had been set to “gtk2”

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That worked, thank you!

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