Re: how can i set the background color of GtkText?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

anuradha arora <anuradhampls yahoo com> writes:

> hello, 
> i have been at this for almost 2 days, it seems that
> setting the background through an rc file just colours
> the earlier-grey border(negligible border) to black,
> and the white base on which text is displayed remains
> the same.
>
> i want to have white characters on a black background,
> and a black background even when there is no text to
> display.
>
> even when i set the background color to black for the
> parent widjet too (a vbox) still the white base is
> still white? 
>
> please tell me where i am goofing up, and a way out
> for the above.

the normally white color is 'base', the normally black
color used on top of 'base' is 'text'. These are separate
colors from 'fg' / 'bg'.

Regards,
                                        Owen