Can't See Menu Items on Ubuntu 12.04

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Ok, it's taken a while, but Arduino 1.0.2 Teensy 3 Beta 9 is now working with teensy 2.0 and teensy 3.0 on 32-bit Vista, 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04, and 32-bit XP (running in a virtual machine under Ubuntu). I had a very hard time getting it to work on the Ubuntu system because the Arduino menu items are a very dark gray on a black background. It looked like there were no menu items. Is there someway to lighten the menu text color on the Ubuntu version of Arduino 1.0.2?
 
On linux, the "arduino" executable is a shell script. The last line is the one which actually runs it:

Code:
java -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel processing.app.Base "$@"

If you edit the file (or a copy of it), try removing the -D stuff, like this:

Code:
java processing.app.Base "$@"

You might also try filing a bug report with Ubuntu. Often they ignore non-critical issues until an overwhelming number of people complain.
 
Thanks, Paul, that did the trick. - Ed

On linux, the "arduino" executable is a shell script. The last line is the one which actually runs it:

Code:
java -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel processing.app.Base "$@"

If you edit the file (or a copy of it), try removing the -D stuff, like this:

Code:
java processing.app.Base "$@"

You might also try filing a bug report with Ubuntu. Often they ignore non-critical issues until an overwhelming number of people complain.
 
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