[gps-users] Using a .gtkrc

[Bobby D. Bryant]

On 2003.07.29 07:39, Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> FYI, I am running the precompiled "Academic Version" that was just 
> announced, on a Linux system.

Another observation, very possibly related.  If I set up to use Emacs 
or Emacsclient as an external editor I get all the font-lock foreground 
and background colors, bolding, etc.  from my ~/.emacs, but if I use 
Gnuclient I get the bolding and the colors only for the foregrounds, 
but the color from my general GTK+ for the background.  It appears that 
GPS is sending something over the pipe telling the Gnuclient variant of 
Emacs to colorize the background, though not the foregrounds.

Thanks,
-- 
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas