Thanks to Sl�vek, I've just had the least-painful system upgrade in the 
(heavens! can it be?) 20 years I've run Linux exclusively. It wasn't 
totally trouble-free, but it was less awful than I usually encounter.

But now I'm encountering a problem that is annoying: menus in Firefox and 
some other applications are reversed, white text on black background. 

Any quick and easy fix? Am running 14.04 on Ubuntu 14.04 (and preparing to 
revel in the new features everyone else has had for three years . . .).

Thanks again.
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