Re: background colors revisited

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Bryan D Jones <bdj@U.Arizona.EDU> writes:

> 	I asked a couple of days ago on how to change the colors of a text
> entry and a scrolled window.  Thanks to everyone who replied.  However
> none of the methods suggested worked.  Changing the the contents of the
> style structure and using rc files changed the border of them as well as
> the text within them.  But the background of these widgets remained
> white.  I found the structure of the text entry widget.  The only thing
> that I guessed would contain the color for the background was the
> GdkWindow or the GdkPixmap.  I looked at how these things were initialized
> in gtk_entry_new but my lack of years of programming experience left me at
> a loss.  So I ask again if anyone has any ideas.  Thank you much.

In an RC file:

  base[NORMAL] = "#88ff88"

background color of text and entries is 'base'
foreground color of text and entries is 'text'

Regards,
                                        Owen