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File dialog is unusable. Can different GUI toolkit be selected?

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Under Linux if I choose "save page as" then my screen is entirely filled with blank whiteness. I can press "escape" to get back to where I was, but I can't save anything. I used to have the same blank-screen problem with LibreOffice's save-file dialog but checking its "Use LibreOffice dialogs" fixed that. Back with older Firefox I could solve this problem by setting "ui.allow_platform_file_picker = false" but that no longer seems to help with Firefox 61.0. Chromium's save-file dialog works fine for me.


Cheers, Mark

Under Linux if I choose "save page as" then my screen is entirely filled with blank whiteness. I can press "escape" to get back to where I was, but I can't save anything. I used to have the same blank-screen problem with LibreOffice's save-file dialog but checking its "Use LibreOffice dialogs" fixed that. Back with older Firefox I could solve this problem by setting "ui.allow_platform_file_picker = false" but that no longer seems to help with Firefox 61.0. Chromium's save-file dialog works fine for me. Cheers, Mark

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Separate Security Issue, please update your Flash 11.2 r202 by removing it If you use it Reinstall with Flash Player Version: 30.0.0.134 Current Version https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ Step 1: Select Operating System Step 2: Select A Version (Firefox, . . . .)

Have you been changing things back to stock when things that you did in about:config change and no longer work ? If you have not been doing this fora extended time it maybe time to create a new Profile and fix those issues.

If is your Profile :

Is a option instead of doing Refresh.

Please to Refresh : Note that this does more than uninstalling and re-installing does. Normal uninstalling does not remove some preferences which may have become corrupt. Please Refresh but do this 1st: Delete your Cookies and Cache and TEST.

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Thank you for the note about Flash. I don't actually use it -- I have it not starting on pages without confirmation -- I should just remove it.

If I move my entire ~/.mozilla/ directory out of the way so Firefox starts completely fresh with no prior settings at all I still see the same problem with an unusable file dialog.

Cheers, Mark

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Anything useful in this bug report?

  • bug 1268395 - [oxygen-gtk3] open/upload/save file under kde is impossible because of filepicker

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Thanks for the pointer. Naturally it suggests the workaround I mentioned that no longer works. (-: Still, in case of anything relevant to the themes mentioned, I tried hunting around in ~/.kde4/share/ and ~/.config/gtk-*/ and whatnot for anything that looked possibly relevant and stripping it out to see what happened but I didn't observe any change. I don't really know what I'm doing with those though: I'm just a twm user, I don't use a KDE or GNOME desktop environment or change themes; I've no oxygen theme installed. I do have GTK+ 3.22.30 installed if that's relevant.

Cheers, Mark

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Support for the builtin XUL based file picker has been removed, so you can no longer use the ui.allow_platform_file_picker to disable the OS file picker.

What theme is currently selected?

You can try to use a different GTK 3 theme to see if you can find one that works.

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I don't select anything explicitly, e.g.,

$ cat .config/gtk-*/* [Settings] gtk-primary-button-warps-slider = false $

In /usr/share/gtk-2.0/gtkrc there seems to be "Adwaita" set; maybe GTK3 does the same implicitly somehow.

$ ls -d /usr/share/themes/*/gtk-3* /usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-3.0 /usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-3.0 $

Kind of amazing the default one doesn't work if that's the problem. ): I certainly don't see any trace locally of this "oxygen" GTK theme that the bug report mentions.

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I'm not having any luck with trying different themes like Adawaita and Breeze. I install them and adjust ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini to have gtk-theme-name, gtk-icon-theme-name, gtk-cursor-theme-name match them accordingly, and I make sure I've wholly quit out of Firefox before retrying, and it makes no difference to the save dialog problem.

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Tried also with ctwm 4.0.2 (which improves some twm misfeatures), same result.