Re: Background color always white?

[Louis des Landes <louis obsidian com au>]

I'm referring to the system gtk+ theme. In your case: http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title=Using_gtk_themes

GTK2 apps are limited somewhat... and background / foreground colours of text entry areas of a single application cannot be customized (afaik).

In my case I'm using a dark gtk2 theme based on Adwaita which sets the text entry background/foreground entry areas on a system wide level, then used a gtkrc.2.0 file to change the highlight backgrounds.

The line in question which should set these colours is:                                                                                

gtk-color-scheme = "base_color:#4f524f\nfg_color:#eeeeec\ntooltip_fg_color:#eeeeee\nselected_bg_color:#3465a4\nselected_fg_color:#eeeeec\ntext_color:#eeeeec\nbg_color:#393f3f\ntooltip_bg_color:#000000"

Hopefully this may help? I can provide the actual theme I'm using if you like =)

--
Louis

On 30 August 2013 06:46, John W <jwdevel gmail com> wrote:

Hi,
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "system theme".
I have a .gtkrc-2.0 file. That seems to affect lots of things (such as
the main window area, buttons, etc), but not the background when there
is an active diff...

See attached screenshots - meld-new.png shows that the general
background colors are correctly taken from.gtkrc-2.0, while
meld-white.png shows that on the diff window, for common text, it's
white.

Is there some other styling file you're referring to?
I'm not using GNOME or anything - just fluxbox.

-John

On 8/28/13, Louis des Landes <louis obsidian com au> wrote:
> The background and foreground colours come from the system theme itself,
> you have to use a system wide gtk theme with a different background colour
> to override it at the moment.
>
> I believe this may change when the gtk3 port is done.
> On Aug 27, 2013 6:03 PM, "John W" <jwdevel gmail com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using the latest-and-greatest from git (7c1e24a70fea...).
>> I have a customized .gtkrc-2.0 file, and I can change most colors just
>> fine.
>>
>> However, I cannot seem to change the 'default' background color.
>> This is the background color that shows in an unchanged area in the diff.
>> For me, it is always white.
>>
>> Does anyone know where Meld gets that value?
>> I'm not opposed to just tweaking the source code to make it work, but
>> I don't really know where to look.
>>
>> Similarly, is there a way to change the foreground color, even if it's a
>> hack?
>> I already have everything descended from GtkWidget set to dark
>> background / light foreground, through my .gtkrc-2.0 file, but for
>> some reason Meld is not affected...
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -John
>>
>> I have
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