On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Bert Timmerman <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > FWIW, maybe the white background is theme/window manager related. > > Some themes/window managers do not handle opacity very well. I've been thinking about this too. Would it perhaps be possible to write a GTK theme engine that gets loaded as the program starts, and is only responsible for rendering this single widget? So the rest of the gui will have the same theme as the users desktop. I browsed the blog[1] of the Murrine developer a long time ago, and there he posts screenshots of transparent widgets. In that case they are transparent through the application down to the desktop, while I only need the GtkTextView's background to be transparent through to the underlying widget, but the use case seems similar enough. This however seems like a really sketchy path to walk and I'd prefer if there was a less crazy solution if the above mentioned idea is even possible. [1] http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2007/12/12/gtk-rgba-transparent-widgets-with-the-murrine-engine/ -- Daniel Svensson _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
