Thunar Context Menu Highlight Invisible with Matcha-light-sea Theme

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Hello everyone,

I’m running the latest Manjaro XFCE with the Matcha-light-sea GTK theme, and after the most recent system update I’ve run into a usability issue in Thunar:

  • What’s happening: When I right-click on any file or folder to open its context menu, the item’s label instantly turns white, and its highlight background also becomes white (or transparent), effectively blending into the rest of the view. As a result, I can’t tell which file or folder the menu belongs to.

  • What I’ve tried so far:

    • Manually patching gtk-3.0/gtk.css with selectors like :backdrop:selected, :selected:hover, etc., but no change.

    • Attempting to uninstall matcha-gtk-theme and reinstall the AUR version (matcha-gtk-theme-git), but:

      error: removing matcha-gtk-theme breaks dependency 'matcha-gtk-theme' required by manjaro-xfce-settings

      Since matcha-gtk-theme is a hard dependency of manjaro-xfce-settings, pacman won’t allow its removal.

Has anyone else encountered this issue? If so, did you find a workaround or a patch? Any insight—or confirmation that it’s not just me—would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your help. :blush:

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