I can't seem to set the background color of a label widget in a notebook widget (not the page identifier) The structure is actually a bit more complicated,and looks partially like window1 vbox1 notebook1 hbox3 labe1 vbox2 label3 label4 I'm trying to make the entire notebook have a background color. setting window1 background works directly on linux window.modify_bg(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, gtk.gdk.color_parse('#4A85DD')) on scratchbox had to add similar line for notebook1 nbook.modify_bg(gtk.STATE_NORMAL, gtk.gdk.color_parse('#4A85DD')) but can't seem to do it under the 770 implementation if this is way off topic, sorry, and please redirect me to proper list. thanks, Jeff