I installed wine from the ubuntu (8.10) repos on sunday (2009-01-25) and at first the menus were white text on white background. Then I followed fixes on the wine ubuntu page: Replace the [Control Panel\\Colors] section with Code: [Control Panel\\Colors] 1176981676 "ActiveBorder"="239 235 231" "ActiveTitle"="203 133 61" "AppWorkSpace"="198 198 191" "Background"="93 77 52" "ButtonAlternativeFace"="200 0 0" "ButtonDkShadow"="85 85 82" "ButtonFace"="239 235 231" "ButtonHilight"="255 255 255" "ButtonLight"="255 255 255" "ButtonShadow"="198 198 191" "ButtonText"="0 0 0" "GradientActiveTitle"="239 235 231" "GradientInactiveTitle"="239 235 231" "GrayText"="198 198 191" "Hilight"="246 200 129" "HilightText"="0 0 0" "InactiveBorder"="239 235 231" "InactiveTitle"="239 235 231" "InactiveTitleText"="255 255 255" "InfoText"="0 0 0" "InfoWindow"="255 255 166" "Menu"="239 235 231" "MenuBar"="239 235 231" "MenuHilight"="246 200 129" "MenuText"="0 0 0" "Scrollbar"="239 235 231" "TitleText"="255 255 255" "Window"="255 255 255" "WindowFrame"="0 0 0" "WindowText"="0 0 0" I don't understand why the menus are distorted. Is this common? I searched the faq and didn't see anything that applied to this particular issue. [Image: http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/2958/20476273gy0.th.png ] (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=20476273gy0.png)[Image: http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5513/wtfwu8.th.png ] (http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wtfwu8.png)