On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 17:09:29 -0800
Dorothy Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > This is what I have:
> > FVWM 2.5.12-4
> > xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8
> > Debian/unstable (ppc)
> > Kernel 2.4.25-ben1
> >
> > I'm trying to change the background color of tooltips, balloons as
> > they're called, IINM on FVWM and elsewhere, popping up when I move
> > the mouse over a browser window, the Buttons Bar etc. ... with only
> > very limited success so far:
> >
>
> As far as I know X11 doesn't have any concept of tooltips, so every UI
> programmer is obliged to roll his/her own. Therefore there's no
> standard for what they're called, or whether they have a separate
> background resource at all. Applications written with a particular
> toolkit sush as Gtk may be different - I don't know.
Gtk calls them tooltips. The following works for me
style "tooltips"
{
fg[NORMAL] = "#000000"
bg[NORMAL] = "#fcf7bd"
}
widget "*tooltips*" style "tooltips"
I put this in ~/.gtkrc.mine which is included from ~./.gtkrc and
~/.gtkrc-2.0
Regards,
Chris
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