Hi, On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:36:23 -0500, Jeff G wrote: > I can't seem to set the background color of a label widget in a > notebook widget (not the page identifier) > window1 > vbox1 > notebook1 [...] > > 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 Err. I hope you only wrote "modify_bg" as a simplification and don't actually have that in code. Colors are a theme issue. If you just want to make the user able to recolor your widget, give it a name(gtk_widget_set_name("foobar")). Then as user / theme author in "~/.gtkrc-2.0" / your theme do: style "foo" { bg[NORMAL] = { 0.5, 0.5, 0.7 } base[NORMAL] = { 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 } } widget "foobar" style "foo" If, on the other hand, you draw your own widget: http://traveller.cvs.sourceforge.net/traveller/tpanel/gtaskitem.py?view=markup This also makes it a lot easier to test when what change works where :-) > if this is way off topic, sorry, and please redirect me to proper list. Seems on-topic to me, however I don't have an answer to your particular question. Maybe create an eventbox, theme that and add your notebook in it? Should be able to find out by hacking a bit... cheers, Danny