customizing specific GTK widget features. To customize Emacs font,
background, faces etc., use the normal X resources, see @ref{Resources}.
- NOTE: Some themes does not allow cutomizations and the mechanisms
-described here may not work for those themes. The theme may ignore the
-attempt to customization, or things are just not drawn correctly.
-Also, it is recommended that you use @file{~/.emacs.d/gtkrc} for
-customizations, @file{~/.gtkrc-2.0} seems to be ignored when running
-GConf with Gnome.
+ Some GTK themes override these mechanisms, which means that using
+these mechanisms will not work to customize them. We recommend that
+you use @file{~/.emacs.d/gtkrc} for customizations, since
+@file{~/.gtkrc-2.0} seems to be ignored when running GConf with GNOME.
In these files you first defines a style and then how to apply that style
to widgets (@pxref{GTK widget names}). Here is an example of how to
Here is a more elaborate example, showing how to change the parts of
the scroll bar:
+
@smallexample
style "scroll"
@{
@}
widget "*verticalScrollBar*" style "scroll"
-
@end smallexample
There are some things you can set without using any style or widget name,