Bug 325736

Summary:	Disabling "Apply colors to non-KDE4 applications" does not work
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Martin Sandsmark <martin.sandsmark>
Component:	krdb	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugs-kde, franz.trischberger, kenny
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	patch

Description Martin Sandsmark 2013-10-07 10:44:19 UTC

By default KDE synchronises its color scheme with Xresources, leading to for example uxterm getting the default white background.

Unchecking that checkbox does not disable this (even after a reboot).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Kenny D 2013-10-07 11:15:36 UTC

i have the same results with kubuntu raring and 4.11.2 packages

Comment 2 Oscar Fuentes 2014-05-19 17:56:28 UTC

I'm seeing the bug in Kubuntu 14.04 (KDE 4.13.0) Renders some non-KDE applications unusable.

Comment 3 Martin Sandsmark 2014-06-05 11:49:56 UTC

Created attachment 87024 [details]
patch

if someone could test the attached patch it would be great.

Comment 4 Franz Trischberger 2015-02-10 21:14:29 UTC

I had this issue, but with plasma-5.2.0.
Turned out to be a shortcoming in the way kde handles .Xresources.
I seperated out my color settings into an own file (to be able to easily change them) and simply #include one in .Xresources. krdb does not like that as it looks.
I think a way to fix this might be to not read the file .Xresources but to get the settings by running xrdb -query. That way xrdb does the work of correctly parsing its own config, and KDE user get what they configured ;)

Comment 5 Björn Feber 2019-08-19 10:56:44 UTC

Looks like this is fixed.