Anyway, the problem is already fixed for the upcoming TDE R14.0.4:

  https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1375

Cheers
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Sl�vek

On Tuesday 20 of September 2016 16:23:52 A M wrote:
> The issue was solved, thanks to the most useful comments by three list
> participants. The first advice, by Gerhard Zintel, was a suggestion to
> simply uncheck one of the preferences via the TDE Control Center:
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> *" I had the same issue before. I cannot clearly remember but try to
> un-check "Apply colors to non-TDE applications" in TDE Control Center
> => Appearence & Themes => Colors. "*
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> That immediately worked, thanks Gerhard! �But then the next advice came
> from Nick Koretsky which also commented on the Gerhard's advice:
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> *That's a bad solution - this checkbox is unfortunately named, it
> should be named "apply styles' - it govern not only colors, but also
> button styles, button placements and fonts in gtk apps The correct
> solution is to add following to you .xsession file ( sleep 10 xrdb -all
> -query|sed -e 's#[A-Z_]*BACKGROUND# gray90#' \*
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> *-e 's#[A-Z_]*FOREGROUND# Black#' �\ -e 's#[A-Z_]*HIGHLIGHT# White#' \
> -e 's#[A-Z_]*LOWLIGHT# Black#'|xrdb -merge ) &*
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> I tried this as well, and it works and seems in fact to be more
> appropriate for our environment. I've applied it by adding to the
> system-wide script that is executed at login and does it one time per
> session. It works pretty well (and has no impact on gtk applications).
> So we'll stick to this method.
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> Finally, another advice came from "iadest":
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> *Hello Try to edit ~/.Xresourced adding: *.WINDOW_FOREGROUND: black
> Then execute command: xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources I had similar problems
> with Perl/Tk and *.BACKGROUND color. Maybe this solution will work for
> Emacs too.*
> *MCbx*
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> As this solution was basically quite similar to that of Nick's which
> was already nicely implemented, I did not try this..
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> In any case, these advices saved me a day. Thanks a lot for all those
> who replied!
>
> Andy.



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Sl�vek