Re: FVWM: What are tooltips called in FVWM?

From: Chris Rouch <cro_at_terma.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:22:22 +0100

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 17:09:29 -0800
Dorothy Robinson <mokuren_at_aracnet.com> wrote:

> Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > This is what I have:
> > FVWM 2.5.12-4
> > xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8
> > Debian/unstable (ppc)
> > Kernel 2.4.25-ben1
> >
> > I'm trying to change the background color of tooltips, balloons as
> > they're called, IINM on FVWM and elsewhere, popping up when I move
> > the mouse over a browser window, the Buttons Bar etc. ... with only
> > very limited success so far:
> >
>
> As far as I know X11 doesn't have any concept of tooltips, so every UI
> programmer is obliged to roll his/her own. Therefore there's no
> standard for what they're called, or whether they have a separate
> background resource at all. Applications written with a particular
> toolkit sush as Gtk may be different - I don't know.

Gtk calls them tooltips. The following works for me

style "tooltips"
{
fg[NORMAL] = "#000000"
bg[NORMAL] = "#fcf7bd"
}
widget "*tooltips*" style "tooltips"

I put this in ~/.gtkrc.mine which is included from ~./.gtkrc and
~/.gtkrc-2.0

Regards,

Chris
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Received on Mon Dec 06 2004 - 05:23:45 GMT

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