[Geany-Users] trying to find Geany Linux gtkrc file

[Lex Trotman]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 at 16:56, D.T. <ohnonot-github at posteo.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 21:51 +0000, Tony Blinco wrote:
> > sorry, I replied incorrectly in the other email.
> > My question is;
> > Is there any documentation for the css tags and values for the geany
> > widgets?
> > Thanks
>
> Start geany like this:
>
>     GTK_DEBUG=interactive geany
>
> You will get an additional window with all the info (and testing
> playground) you need.

Just be aware that any widget names and organisation not documented
are not guaranteed to be stable. (although they havn't changed for
ages)

Cheers
Lex

>
> HTH
>
> >
> > ------ Original Message ------
> > From: "Lex Trotman" <elextr at gmail.com>
> > To: "Tony Blinco" <anthony.blinco at gmail.com>; "Geany general
> > discussion
> > list" <users at lists.geany.org>
> > Sent: 22/06/2021 5:45:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Geany-Users] trying to find Geany Linux gtkrc file
> >
> > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 at 16:29, Tony Blinco
> > > <anthony.blinco at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  I believe i am using the Geany GTK 3.0 version (latest as of a
> > > > few days ago)
> > > >  I am trying to set the colors of the editor widgets and
> > > > everything i read tells me to modify the gtkrc file
> > > >  but i cannot find where that file is on linux.
> > > >  Can anyone tell me where i might find this file in linux?
> > > >  Thank you all very much for your help
> > > >
> > >
> > > The version of GTK is a build time setting for all released Geany
> > > versions, but the latest git is indeed GTK3 only.
> > >
> > > To tell the version of GTK see a message near the top of Help-
> > > >Debug Messages.
> > >
> > > If it is GTK3 (likely) then it no longer uses gtkrc files, it now
> > > uses
> > > GTK CSS.  There are some in $PREFIX/share/geany and you can put
> > > your
> > > own geany.css in your config directory to override whatever you
> > > need
> > > to.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Lex
> > >
> > >
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