Re: Change color of widgets

[Hubert Sokołowski <h sokolowski wsisiz edu pl>]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:58:22 -0500
Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org> wrote:

> Adrian Hoe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new to this list and am developing some gui application on
> > linux.
> >
> > My application would require to toggle between day or night mode.
> > When 
> > the  application is in day mode, the widgets will be displayed in 
> > normal  desktop colors. When it is in night mode, the widgets must
> > be 
> > displayed in  another color, e.g. Red on black background.
> >
> > How can I change the color of the widgets?
>
> This is one way to do it:
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWidget.html#gtk-widget-modify-bg
another way would be to use themes and two different gtkrc files.