[Geany] Change the color of selected text

Lex Trotman elextr at xxxxx
Tue May 17 23:53:37 UTC 2011


>> # 3rd selection argument is true to override default foreground
>> # 4th selection argument is true to override default background
>> selection=0x000000;0xc0c0c0;false;false
>>
>> Edit 0xc0c0c0 to the colour you want and set the last false to true.
>
> A weird thing with this is, at least when using the colour schemes support,
> when you have selected text and then open a modal dialog, the selection
> colours revert to some default grey colour which causes the OP's issues
> anyway.  I haven't had time to pin down where the problem comes from, but I
> think it might be in Scintilla (and/or geany-themes).
>

Hi Matthew,

I don't think filetypes.common applies outside text in the Scintilla
window, the normal dialogs and everything else is GTK theming using
.gtkrc, see the manual for more info.

Cheers
Lex



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