Re: Troublesome background of Text widget

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org> writes:

> I'm trying to change the background of a Text widget from white to a
> darker color. At the moment I'm trying with black. I first get the style
> from the Text widget, then I set the background of the Normal state to
> the black color and finally I apply the style on the Text widget again.
> The problem is that the white background remains and I get some sort of
> "black border" around it.

The background of the text widget is defined by the 'base' color,
not the background color. (And the foreground is 'text', not
'base')

Hope this helps,
                                        Owen