Tools submenu selected item is unreadable.

[AverageGuy]

In the enclosed image you can see that the "Board" in the sub menu, "Arduino Uno" does not show up. The space it should be is blank. It's like someone decided to highlight it by changing the text to white. On a white background, that makes it hard to read. The image doesn't appear to be uploading so if it doesn't then it can be seen at http://fdcga.com/images/arduino.png

[AverageGuy]

Note, this is on a Linux Mint 13 64 bit system, running 1.0.5.

[AverageGuy]

I'll try the image again.

[AverageGuy]

Same behavior with the Serial Port selection.

[PaulStoffregen]

I believe this is a bug in the Java "look and feel" themes shipped with Linux Mint, not a bug in Arduino's software.

The "arduino" command that you use to run the IDE is actually a shell script. If you edit it, you'll see the last line is:

java -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel processing.app.Base "$@"

You can remove the GTKLookAndFeel stuff. Like this:

java processing.app.Base "$@"

These themes are part of your Linux distro, not the Arduino software. You probably need to report this bug to the Linux Mint folks.

[AverageGuy]

Hi Paul, You seem to pop up everywhere. Thanks for the tip. That worked great.