[GTK+3] Keyboard layout indicator text in the panel is always white [$10]

[GiedriusS]

As seen in this screenshot https://i.imgur.com/VRBC772.jpg the indicator text that shows the current layout is white. And it is always white regardless of the theme being used. This happens only on gtk3 builds. @raveit65 also confirmed this. libmatekbd version:
[*] libmatekbd-1.12.0_1 MATE keyboard library

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[monsta]

Workaround:

gsettings set org.mate.peripherals-keyboard-xkb.indicator foreground-color '0 0 0'

This will set the font to be always black. If you don't plan changing theme to dark this should be ok 😄

[raveit65]

nice finder, in a ideal world it should read theme fg color, but a gsettings key is sufficient :)

[raveit65]

possible fix
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libgnomekbd/commit/?id=ab411c5084e1816df56f97351132329aeb4123be

[monsta]

Yes, it might be. I've already seen it before but didn't like the "hack" word... but we can try it since there's no other fix around...

[monsta]

Nice, it's indeed fixed now, thanks @XRevan86 😄
The font has a bit weird rendering (somewhat blurred), but the color is correct for both light and dark themes.

[monsta]

So I saw this fixed in Debian Testing with GTK+ 3.20, but now I see it in Ubuntu MATE 16.10 with GTK+ 3.18... tried Menta, TraditionalGreen and other themes, the font is still white. 😕

[monsta]

@flexiondotorg: can you reproduce this in Ubuntu 16.10?

[monsta]

@flexiondotorg: I see it now in Ubuntu 16.10 - only with Radiant-MATE though. Seems to be fixed in other themes, at least for 3.20.

[oz123]

This bug still exists for me in mate-1.16 built on gentoo.

[oz123]

As a work around for this annoying issue, I can suggest the following remedy:

edit foreground-color in org->mate->desktop->peripherals->keyboard->indicator.

Change it to 0 0 0.