Re: background colors in apps

[jason whizzird net]

i just tried this and it chaged the colors for the scrollbars and menu fonts
but not the main window is there a choice for this window?

On 27-Jun-99 James Henstridge scribbled:
> This is quite easy to do with rc files.  For GNOME applications, if the
> application name is 'gnome-prog', then the rc file ~/.gnome/gnome-progrc
> will be parsed on startup.  Also ~/.gtkrc will be parsed by all gtk apps
> on startup (the ~/.gnome/gnome-progrc file would take precedence).
> 
> In these files, you could quite esily set the colour scheme with something
> like this:
>   style "default"
>   {
>     bg[NORMAL] = { 0.rr, 0.gg, 0.bb }
>     bg[ACTIVE] = ...
>     bg[PRELIGHT] = ...
>     bg[SELECTED] = ...
>     bg[INSENSITIVE] = ...
>     fg[NORMAL] = ...
>     ...
>   }
>   widget_class "*" style "default"
> 
> James.
> 
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> 
> On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 jason@whizzird.net wrote:
> 
>> is there a setting to change the background (and then hopefully the
>> foreground)
>> color in gtk apps like gvim, gIDE, Balsa, etc. And is there a way to make it
>> application specific? I'd like to make balsa black on light grey and make
>> gvim
>> white on black.
>> 
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jason majors
e-mail: jason@whizzird.net
date: 27-Jun-99
time: 16:06:19
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