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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ringo,

You are correct, you can not set the background color in the config files.
What you could do is e.g. change the text color of the page headings, or
set a different font (comic sans for personal notes sure would get noticed).

You can not make a setting per notebook, but you can make a setting per
"profile". Then you assign the notebooks to these profiles using the
properties dialog.

Hope this helps,

Jaap



On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Ringo P <ringo@erratica.solutions> wrote:

> Right. It appears what I'm looking for is a property for TextView in
> style.conf that doesn't exist, or at least is not a 'known property'
> according to this page on the Zim mailing list...
>
> http://zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Config_Files.html
>
> I tried on the off-chance specifying colour here using both 'background'
> and 'bgcolor' tags without any luck. Alternately, it would be possible to
> change background colour in all Zim notebooks using the GTK style options,
> but that isn't much use to me.
>
> The search continues. Is it worth filing a feature request at this point?
>
>
> On 01/02/15 11:13, Ringo P wrote:
>
>> Okay. Second problem solved first with an embarrassingly easy solution,
>> the 'profile' spec of a notebook's 'properties' allows me to use a separate
>> style.conf for each notebook. Still figuring out background colour. If
>> anyone's around to take pity on me that would be appreciated.
>>
>> On 01/02/15 10:53, Ringo P wrote:
>>
>>> Most of what I want to ask is in the subject line. Is it possible to
>>> change the background colour of a notebook, and is it possible to apply
>>> different style options to different notebooks on the same profile?
>>>
>>> In (slightly) more depth, my situation is that after five years using a
>>> single private Zim notebook I've started also using Zim to build a personal
>>> public website using a separate notebook. I'm spending a fair amount of
>>> time with both notebooks open, switching between public notes and private
>>> notes. It would make my life easier if I could set the background of the
>>> public notebook to (say) a light green and the private notebook to (say) a
>>> light red.
>>>
>>> As far as I can tell at the moment it seems like it may be possible to
>>> change the background colour if only I could figure out how. I've noticed
>>> the distraction free plugin specifies a different background colour with
>>> the tag "bgcolor=" and tried using a similar tag under the main page view
>>> section of preferences.conf but that doesn't work.
>>>
>>> Using a different set of preferences for each notebook seems more
>>> difficult. Is this currently possible, and if so how? If not, is it
>>> plausible that it might be implemented in the future and would it be worth
>>> filing a bug report/feature request?
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help point me in the right
>>> direction, and many thanks in any case to the developers for an awesome
>>> piece of software.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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> RINGO
>
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