Sunday, 18 April 2010

Getting Skype menus to work nicely with the dark Ubuntu Lucid Lynx theme (Ambiance)

I recently installed Skype on Ubuntu 10.04 - Lucid Lynx, and for the main part it works great out of the box. However if you are using the dark Ambiance theme that ships with Ubuntu 10.04 then the context menus will be dark text on a dark background, meaning you cannot see any of the options.


This can be easily corrected by selecting the Skype button in the bottom left and then selecting options (text shows up in menu when you hover over an item)


Under the general tab change the style from 'Clearlooks' to 'Desktop Settings' 

Then restart Skype and the menu should be nice and clear.
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5 comments:

  1. yokotoka28 May 2010 at 08:30

    Thank YOU!!!! It's awesome!

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  2. PortalParanormal23 July 2010 at 09:11

    thank you so much!

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  3. 30hoursflight26 October 2010 at 21:44

    Thanks so much man.. it was soooo annoying and haven't been able to solve it for quite a while, till ur post came out in my google search.

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  4. Anonymous4 November 2010 at 10:12

    This one should be top of the search results. Helped me out when Skype reset after a system crash. Cheers.

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  5. Anonymous30 November 2010 at 23:53

    You sir, win one (1) internet

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