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Gtkdialog: tooltip background: how to fill the whole bg?
Posted: Sun 09 Feb 2014, 12:32
by Bert
Hi all,
With a longer tooltip, I get these grey ends of line.
Here I exaggerated the amount of text a bit for the screenshot:
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<button tooltip-markup="<span fgcolor='"'blue'"' bgcolor='"'lightyellow'"'> '$(gettext 'Lorem ipsum
Is there a trick to make the tooltip background 100% "light-yellow"?
Thanks in advance!
Posted: Sun 09 Feb 2014, 14:12
by zigbert
I don't know the exact code, but you can sure set tooltip colors in an extra gtktheme.
The following example shows to do it (for monospace text).
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#!/bin/bash
echo 'style "specialmono"
{
font_name="Mono 12"
}
widget "*mono" style "specialmono"
class "GtkText*" style "specialmono"' > /tmp/gtkrc_mono
export GTK2_RC_FILES=/tmp/gtkrc_mono:/root/.gtkrc-2.0
export test_app="
<vbox>
<text name=\"mono\"><label>This text-widget uses monospace font....</label></text>
<text><label>...while this text-widget don't.</label></text>
<edit><default>All edit-widgets gets monospace.</default></edit>
</vbox>"
gtkdialog --program=test_app
Posted: Mon 10 Feb 2014, 22:43
by Bert
Thank you Zigbert,
I've been trying your idea, but didn't get results.
There was already a global "special" gtktheme in the dialog (as you can see from the fonts in the screenshot above).
At first I tried to integrate the tooltip stuff in that gtktheme. Didn't work. Then I added a new theme, following your example:
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#setting tooltip style...
echo 'style "specialtooltip"
{
font_name="Sans 10"
font_style="bold"
fg[NORMAL]="blue"
bg[NORMAL]="lightyellow"
}
widget "*specialtooltip" style "specialtooltip"
class "GtkTooltip*" style "specialtooltip"' > /tmp/gtkrc_specialtooltip
Tried another example (from SFR I think):
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#setting tooltip style..
FONT_NAME="Sans"
FONT_SIZE="10"
FONT_STYLE="bold"
echo 'style "custom1"
{
font_name="'$FONT_NAME' '$FONT_STYLE' '$FONT_SIZE'"
fg[NORMAL]="blue"
bg[NORMAL]="lightyellow"
}
widget "*GtkTooltip*" style "custom1" ' > /tmp/gtkrc_custom1
export GTK2_RC_FILES="${HOME}/.gtkrc-2.0:/tmp/gtkrc_custom1"
Again no luck.
I'm sure you are right and that it is possible, but I have to give up.
It is also not
that important
It taught me to keep tooltips sweet and short...
Thanks again,
Bert
Posted: Tue 11 Feb 2014, 20:38
by zigbert
Be aware that some gtk-themes are hard to override. Try the Flat-grey or Stardust, as these has never given trouble for me.
Posted: Tue 11 Feb 2014, 21:40
by SFR
Did some trials and replacing "*GtkTooltip*" with just "*tooltip*" gave me control over tooltip's style.
Greetings!
Posted: Sat 15 Feb 2014, 12:20
by Bert
Thanks SFR! Working now
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#setting tooltip style..
FONT_NAME="Sans"
FONT_SIZE="10"
FONT_STYLE="bold"
echo 'style "customtooltip"
{
font_name="'$FONT_NAME' '$FONT_STYLE' '$FONT_SIZE'"
fg[NORMAL]="blue"
bg[NORMAL]="lightyellow"
}
widget "*tooltip*" style "customtooltip" ' > /tmp/gtkrc_customtooltip
export GTK2_RC_FILES="${HOME}/.gtkrc-2.0:/tmp/gtkrc_customtooltip"
export DIALOG='
<frame>
<edit text-name="tooltip" tooltip-text=" "
