#993151 cinnamon: Nemo has inconvenient font color for selected file/folder in 2plate preview when changing plate

Package:
cinnamon
Source:
cinnamon
Description:
Innovative and comfortable desktop
Submitter:
Edd
Date:
2026-09-06 18:15:03 UTC
Severity:
minor
#993151#5
Date:
2021-08-28 02:57:56 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

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#993151#16
Date:
2026-09-06 18:12:59 UTC
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Hi,

in the dual pane view nemo shaded the whole inactive pane, including the
selected row, which kept its white "selected" foreground and became
unreadable - the effect in your screenshot. The rule only applies with
non-Mint themes, which is why it shows with Adwaita and friends.

It was fixed upstream in linuxmint/nemo#3261 by adding `:not(:selected)`
to the selector in nemo-style-fallback-mandatory.css. In Debian the fix
is in nemo since 5.8.5-2, so I am closing this bug; bullseye and
bookworm still carry the old rule and will not be changed for this.

I have also reassigned the bug from cinnamon to nemo, where the code lives.

Thanks for the report.