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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Alessandro Magni <magni@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  not being one who surrenders without fighting,
> here is how to customize your Zim window colors.
>
> 1) customize a GTK style
>        in my Fedora system they are at /usr/share/themes . I chose "Simple";
>        edit the colors in the gtkrc file, while previewing the theme: I use
> the gtk-chtheme application
>
> 2) to avoid applying this theme to every running GTK app, you have to launch
> Zim this way:
>    " env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Simple/gtk-2.0/gtkrc zim
> zimbookfile"

As Stefan pointed out this is also addressed by bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/634869 .

With the next release the main editor widget and the page index widget
have specific names that allow targeting them in the Gtkrc file
without messing up other applications.

Regards,

Jaap