Dear Francesco,

Am Sonntag, den 08.05.2016, 17:30 +0200 schrieb Francesco Poli
(wintermute):
> Today I upgraded a number packages on a Debian testing box.
> After that, sm became unable to set the background color requested
> by the user with the -b option:
> 
>   $ sm -f lawngrenn -b black
> 
> currently results in lawngreen text on *white* background. No matter
> which color I pass as argument to the -b or --background= option,
> the background color stays white.
> 
> Since sm has not been upgraded, I think that this new misbehavior
> is due to some library upgrade.
> The only sm dependency among the upgraded packages is:
> 
>   [UPGRADE] libgtk-3-0:amd64 3.18.9-1 -> 3.20.3-2
> 
> As a consequence, I consider it the prime suspect.
> 
> I don't know whether this is a bug in libgtk-3-0 or something that
> needs to be adapted in sm. Please investigate and forward my report
> upstream or reassign it, as appropriate.
> 

I can confirm it; since probably that upgrade, I see unconditionally
grey background here. It seems that with that version of gtk, the theme
takes precedent over how I set the color, and I likely set it wrongly.

Would you be interested in tracking that down, and come up with a
patch?

Thanks,
Joachim

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