setting background color to drawing area

["Billy N. Patton" <bpatton dal asp ti com>]

I've been looking throught the archived mail but havent found anything
but discussions about doing this.  I'm  just on my 2nd day with gtk
and need some assistance.

Could some please send a snippet of code to do this, PLEASE :)

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