On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:26:31PM +0100, William Leese wrote: > A shamefully stupid question: how do i change the text background (and > foreground) colors of gtk apps? I found the .gtkrc file but had no clue how > to change the colors (if it does that) because of the odd way of defining > different colors (0.897 / 0.763 etc.. ) > > I've installed a few themes to see if they changed it from the default white > to something more dark but that didnt work either. Actually, some themes > didnt work at all, the only ones that do are pixmapped ones. The 'color > themes' dont change a thing. in Gnome Control Center the only option there is > for changing the appearance of gtk apps is the Themes section. > > I'm using unstable, with blackbox as my WM and (as far as i'm aware) just > about all the core packages from GNOME installed. > > William > >
You probably need gtk-engines-flat to enable color themes. It's apt-gettable. Cheers Tiarnan
