Re: gtk Emacs: how specify menu font?

[Jan D.]

Robert J. Chassell wrote:
> How do I specify a background color for both the menubar and the sub
> menus?

...

> Strangely enough, the following produces exactly the same results --
> none of the `bg', background, colors have any effect on either the
> menubar or the submenus, even though they are not commented out!
>
>     style "itemfont"
>      {
>        font_name = "times 20"
>
>        bg[NORMAL] = "DodgerBlue4"
>        bg[ACTIVE] = "DodgerBlue3"
>        bg[PRELIGHT] = "DodgerBlue2"
>
>        fg[NORMAL] = "green4"
>        fg[SELECTED] = "green3"
>        fg[ACTIVE] = "green2"
>        fg[PRELIGHT] = "green1"
>      }
>
>     widget "*item*" style "itemfont"
>
>
> What should I do to create a "DodgerBlue4" background for *both* the
> menubar and its submenus?  (Then I will use "green", not "green4" for
> fg[NORMAL]; that is what the Lucid toolkit permits me to do.)

I can not understand how the naming for menus and dialogs work.  I filed a bug 
about it once, but it won't be fixed in GTK, see 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101987.

In order to make this particular case work, create an ~/emacs.d/gtkrc file with 
your style above in it, and say:

widget_class "*Menu*" style "menufont"

Only Emacs reads ~/emacs.d/gtkrc so in that file one can use a more "fuzzy" 
matching in widget and widget_class.  You can of course do the same in 
~/.gtkrc-2.0, but that would affect all applications.

        Jan D.