Font colors keep shifting
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 by Rakim360 | Discussion: WindowBlinds
Hello All i am having a problem here which i cant seem to figure out on my own, i have tried for a couple of months actually 
. Anyway it seems as though for what ever reason my theme keeps shifting back to the native skin colors for the fonts, i am using Tiggz GT3 windowblinds pack and the white fonts interfere with some apps i run so i went into my theme manager.. control panel/display/appearance/advanced/otheradvancedcontrols and adjusted the fonts to a more usable format for my needs but it often shifts back to the standard white fonts without me telling it too..I have checked in the WB config and found no setting which seems to affect it so the only thing i have been doomed to doing is continually resetting it from within my control panel each time my Display properties revert.. i am fairly certain that it is something simple that i am overlooking. I was hoping someone here would be able to shed some light on my problem. Soooo any and all suggestions are appreciated ESP. the ones that work!!! lol 
Thanks in advance guys..
. Anyway it seems as though for what ever reason my theme keeps shifting back to the native skin colors for the fonts, i am using Tiggz GT3 windowblinds pack and the white fonts interfere with some apps i run so i went into my theme manager.. control panel/display/appearance/advanced/otheradvancedcontrols and adjusted the fonts to a more usable format for my needs but it often shifts back to the standard white fonts without me telling it too..I have checked in the WB config and found no setting which seems to affect it so the only thing i have been doomed to doing is continually resetting it from within my control panel each time my Display properties revert.. i am fairly certain that it is something simple that i am overlooking. I was hoping someone here would be able to shed some light on my problem. Soooo any and all suggestions are appreciated ESP. the ones that work!!! lol 
Thanks in advance guys..
Rakim360
Reply #2 Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:52 AM
Reply #2 Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:52 AM
It happens spontaneously i dont even have to reboot sometimes my terminal comes back from the screen saver and the fonts have switched or sometimes it just totally random it just depends. but always on reboot.And thanks for taking time Daiwa
Daiwa
Reply #3 Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:09 PM
Reply #3 Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:09 PM
Not sure why they'd be spontaneously changing in mid-session. Someone smarter than me will hopefully chime in, but it seems your best option would be to change the font colors within the skin - that should render the problem moot.
Rakim360
Reply #4 Friday, August 11, 2006 7:51 PM
Reply #4 Friday, August 11, 2006 7:51 PM
Tryed that Daiwa and it seems to work i am going to reboot now and see what happens thanks..
Rakim360
Reply #5 Friday, August 11, 2006 7:59 PM
Reply #5 Friday, August 11, 2006 7:59 PM
Well Daiwa, as i said before it must have been something simple,because the simple fix of recoloring the skin fonts with skin studio worked perfectly. Although i would still like to know what caused the conflict initially..None the less Thanks alot for the fix that cured my problem Very much appreciated
Very much appreciated
Daiwa
Reply #6 Sunday, August 13, 2006 1:50 AM
Reply #6 Sunday, August 13, 2006 1:50 AM
Presumably, the "conflict" results from two applications telling Windows what text color to use for the same GUI element. Controlling the GUI completely from within WB avoids that. Hard to be specific, but it seems Windows gets confused when I try to change things thru Display Properties while WB is loaded.
Glad it's fixed for ya.
Glad it's fixed for ya.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, August 9, 2006 10:58 PM
Each skin typically sets the Classic text font colors at bootup or when applied. If you change text font colors using the Display Properties applet while a skin is loaded & click Apply, the text colors you've changed will be applied but nothing gets changed in the skin itself and the next time the skin is applied, the skin's text colors will return. It's like the difference between volatile memory & non-volatile memory - they colors you change in Display Properties are volatile, the colors set in the skin are non-volatile.
You would need to edit the Classic Colors section of the skin itself to make the text color changes "permanent" - SkinStudio is the easiest way to do that.