As it turns out, the real problem was the nut connecting the keyboard to the chair.
After poking, looking, searching and finally trying various GTK apps in different user accounts, I discovered that the KDE setting to apply KDE colors to non-KDE apps was the culprit. All is now understood and working correctly. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://n0nb.us/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org