Black Human Fixes

If you have installed my Black Human GTK theme, you'll notice that Firefox input boxes and buttons are dark grey and don't match the rest of the webpage. OpenOffice shares a similar quirk, the document background is dark grey making text hard to read.

Firefox 3 Fix


Create a userContent.css file

gedit /home/red/.mozilla/firefox/*/chrome/userConent.css

Copy this into the newly created userContent.css file.

/*
* Edit this file and copy it as userContent.css into your
* profile-directory/chrome/
*/

/*
* This file can be used to apply a style to all web pages you view
* Rules without !important are overruled by author rules if the
* author sets any. Rules with !important overrule author rules.
*/

/*
* example: turn off "blink" element blinking
*
* blink { text-decoration: none ! important; }
*
*/

/*
* example: give all tables a 2px border
*
* table { border: 2px solid; }
*/

/*
* example: turn off "marquee" element
*
* marquee { -moz-binding: none; }
*
*/

/*
* For more examples see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html
*/
/* Smooth Scrolling Workaround: Disable Fixed Background Images on Pages */
body {
background-attachment: scroll !important;
}

input {
border: 2px inset white;
background-color: white;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}

textarea {
border: 2px inset white;
background-color: white;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}

select {
border: 2px inset white;
background-color: white;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}

input[type="radio"],
input[type="checkbox"] {
border: 2px inset white ! important;
background-color: white ! important;
color: ThreeDFace ! important;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}

*|*::-moz-radio {
background-color: white;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}

button,
input[type="reset"],
input[type="button"],
input[type="submit"] {
border: 2px outset white;
background-color: #eeeeee;
color: black;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}

body {
background-color: white;
color: black;
display: block;
margin: 8px;
-moz-appearance: none !important;
}

Save and exit the file.
You can download my custom css file here.


- Looks much better now


OpenOffice 3 Fix
OpenOffice doesn't look quite right either.


To get a white document background color instead of dark grey, go to:
Go to Tools>Options, then under OpenOffice.org>Appearance


- Under Appearance change the Document Background & Application Background to white.

Now you get a nice clean white background for all your documents.

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