# Tooltips still illegible in dark mode on Ubuntu 22.04

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**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [June 7, 2023, 8:03am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/tooltips-still-illegible-in-dark-mode-on-ubuntu-22-04/30980 "2023-06-07T08:03:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Henning.K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@Henning.K](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Henning.K)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 8:03am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/tooltips-still-illegible-in-dark-mode-on-ubuntu-22-04/30980/1 "2023-06-07T08:03:24Z")

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_Because this forum still counts me as a new user, I can’t answer more than three times in the same topic. So I have to open a new topic to answer @dae 's question from over here: hxxps://forums.ankiweb.net/t/tooltip-hover-appearance-looks-strange/30384/13 (links are also not allowed yet…)_

As mentioned above, I recently replaced my (very) old machine with a new one, so the current installation of Ubuntu 22.04 is less than a month old. I’m not aware what I could have changed that could interfere with the problem at hand.

Something I found while poking around. When I switch the style to “light” in the system settings (not in Anki), the tooltips are legible, regardless of whatever settings in Anki I can find. When I switch the style in the system settings to “dark”, the tooltips are illegible, again regardless of any settings in Anki.

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**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/tooltips-still-illegible-in-dark-mode-on-ubuntu-22-04/30980/2 "2023-06-09T12:06:12Z")

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I saw that behaviour too, but the change I made in 2.1.65 fixed the issue in dark mode on my machine. I’m afraid I’m not sure what the problem might be ☹

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/tooltips-still-illegible-in-dark-mode-on-ubuntu-22-04/30980/3 "2023-07-09T12:06:29Z")

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