[gps-users] Using a .gtkrc

[Nicolas Setton]

Hello

> I set up a ~/.gps/gtkrc to redefine the foreground and background 
> colors in GtkTextView widgets, hoping to change the background of the 
> program text in the main GPS viewer/editor, which by default is written 
> in the color of my general GTK+ theme.
> 
> The change does not seem to have any effect.  Actually, whenever I open 
> a file for editing or switch between the tabs for different source 
> files I get a brief flash of my specified color in the column where the 
> line numbers are written, but it is immediately overwritten by the 
> white background of the line numbers.  I don't even see that brief 
> flash of color for the main background.
> 
> Is what I am trying to do even possible?  Am I changing the colors for 
> the wrong widget type?  Is GPS perhaps applying my general GTK+ theme 
> _after_ applying whatever is in ~/.gps/gtkrc, and it is just repainted 
> so fast that I don't see it?

What are you putting in your gtkrc file ?
The correct syntax would be something like:
        
        
        style "textviews"
         {
         base[NORMAL]="#ffaadd" 
        }   
            
        class "GtkTextView" style "textviews"
        
        
That should get you an horrible pink background in all text editors.

Cheers,

Nico