Re: Changing background colors

[John Cupitt <john cupitt ng-london org uk>]

Hi Larry,

lrcgtk red4est com wrote:
> I'm working on a project at work, and writing the user interface in gtk. 
>
> The specifications for the program include that it look like the previous
> generation program. Therefore, the software has to have black background.
>
> Gtk seems to REALLY  want grey backgrounds. I've tried playing around with 
> my .gtkrc file, but can only get some of the fields to turn black. 
> A lot of times I can get the foreground color to change, but not the 
> background color.

You should be able to change the whole application with just your gtkrc. Try this in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file and (almost) everything should go a very ugly pink:

style "pink"
{
 bg[NORMAL]      = { 1.000, 0.80, 0.80 }
 fg[NORMAL]      = { 1.000, 0.40, 0.60 }
 bg[PRELIGHT]    = { 1.000, 0.80, 1.00 }
 fg[PRELIGHT]    = { 1.000, 0.40, 0.60 }
 bg[ACTIVE]      = { 1.000, 0.80, 0.80 }
 fg[ACTIVE]      = { 1.000, 0.40, 0.60 }
 bg[SELECTED]    = { 1.000, 0.60, 0.80 }
 fg[SELECTED]    = { 1.000, 0.00, 0.00 }
 base[SELECTED]  = { 1.000, 0.60, 0.80 }
 text[SELECTED]  = { 1.000, 0.00, 0.00 }
 base[ACTIVE]    = { 1.000, 0.80, 0.80 }
 text[ACTIVE]    = { 1.000, 0.00, 0.00 }
}

class "GtkWidget" style "pink"

I stole this from one of the gtk2 themes, they are good place to look for tips on gtkrc hacking.

John