From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.3) Gecko/20040803 Description of problem: Installed RHEL WS 3.2 with Gnome (selected by default during installation) and KDE (not selected by default so manually selected) desktop environments. Applied all available package updates from RHN. Installed acroread-5.08-2.i386.rpm and acroread-plugin-5.08-2.i386.rpm from the RHEL WS 3.2 Extras channel available at RHN. Start /usr/bin/acroread and open a PDF file. Select some text either by click-dragging a text-mode cursor or by searching for a text string. The selected text is not highlighted in reverse video. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): acroread-5.08-2, kdebase-3.1.3-5.2, gnome-desktop-2.2.2-1, mozilla-1.4.3-3.0.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Choose KDE session from gdm and login. 2. Start /usr/bin/acroread and open a PDF file. 3. Click on the text cursor button on the tool bar (the button with the letter "T" and a dashed box). 4. Click and drag text-mode mouse cursor over any text. The selected text should appear highlighted (in reverse video), but doesn't. 5. Type Ctrl-F and search for a word that can be found in the PDF file. Acroread finds the page where the word is, but the word is not highlighted in reverse video. Actual Results: The selected text is not highlighted (in reverse video). Expected Results: The selected text should appear in reverse video. Additional info: Workarounds: 1. The selected text does appear in reverse video when Acrobat Reader is run in the Gnome Desktop. 2. Still use the KDE Desktop, but run Acrobat Reader as a plugin within Mozilla (i.e., acroread embedded in Mozilla window). The selected text will appear in reverse video. System Information: * Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop * ATI Radeon Mobility M9 video card with 64 MB memory (appears to be probed correctly by redhat-config-xfree86; driver=radeon) * Logitech MouseMan optical wheel mouse with USB connector (recognized incorrectly by kudzu as generic PS/2 mouse, causing wheel button not to work; manually corrected by running redhat-config-mouse). Packages: acroread-5.08-2 acroread-plugin-5.08-2 glibc[-devel]-2.3.2-95.20 gnome-desktop-2.2.2-1 kdebase-3.1.3-5.2 mozilla-1.4.3-3.0.2 XFree86[-libs]-4.3.0-62.EL
Problem persists after upgrading to RHEL WS 3.3.
If you remove /usr/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults/AAAMotif.ad, /usr/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults/AcroRead.ad and restart KDE again, does it work you ?
Hello Ngo Than! Renaming these two files worked. Highlighted text now appears in reverse video (bg=blue, fg=black, but good enough). Renaming only AcroRead.ad but keeping AAAMotif.ad also works. Renaming only AAAMotif.ad but keeping AcroRead.ad does not work. If You need more information, please let me know. Thanks for Your help! Dewey Yin
What also works is putting the following lines into $HOME/.Xdefaults : acroread*Foreground: WINDOW_FOREGROUND acroread*Background: #E9E9E9 Other colors can be used, of course. JK
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