I'm referring to the system gtk+ theme. In your case:
http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title=Using_gtk_themes

GTK2 apps are limited somewhat... and background / foreground colours of
text entry areas of a single application cannot be customized (afaik).

In my case I'm using a dark gtk2 theme based on Adwaita which sets the text
entry background/foreground entry areas on a system wide level, then used a
gtkrc.2.0 file to change the highlight backgrounds.

The line in question which should set these colours is:

gtk-color-scheme =
"base_color:#4f524f\nfg_color:#eeeeec\ntooltip_fg_color:#eeeeee\nselected_bg_color:#3465a4\nselected_fg_color:#eeeeec\ntext_color:#eeeeec\nbg_color:#393f3f\ntooltip_bg_color:#000000"

Hopefully this may help? I can provide the actual theme I'm using if you
like =)

--
Louis


On 30 August 2013 06:46, John W <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm not quite sure what you mean by "system theme".
> I have a .gtkrc-2.0 file. That seems to affect lots of things (such as
> the main window area, buttons, etc), but not the background when there
> is an active diff...
>
> See attached screenshots - meld-new.png shows that the general
> background colors are correctly taken from.gtkrc-2.0, while
> meld-white.png shows that on the diff window, for common text, it's
> white.
>
> Is there some other styling file you're referring to?
> I'm not using GNOME or anything - just fluxbox.
>
> -John
>
> On 8/28/13, Louis des Landes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The background and foreground colours come from the system theme itself,
> > you have to use a system wide gtk theme with a different background
> colour
> > to override it at the moment.
> >
> > I believe this may change when the gtk3 port is done.
> > On Aug 27, 2013 6:03 PM, "John W" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm using the latest-and-greatest from git (7c1e24a70fea...).
> >> I have a customized .gtkrc-2.0 file, and I can change most colors just
> >> fine.
> >>
> >> However, I cannot seem to change the 'default' background color.
> >> This is the background color that shows in an unchanged area in the
> diff.
> >> For me, it is always white.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know where Meld gets that value?
> >> I'm not opposed to just tweaking the source code to make it work, but
> >> I don't really know where to look.
> >>
> >> Similarly, is there a way to change the foreground color, even if it's a
> >> hack?
> >> I already have everything descended from GtkWidget set to dark
> >> background / light foreground, through my .gtkrc-2.0 file, but for
> >> some reason Meld is not affected...
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> -John
> >>
> >> I have
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> >>
> >
>
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