Trying to style a widget using gtkrc is not working - Zim wiki on Windows 7

Question

I am using Zim wiki on Windows 7 and would like to style the pageview background to be a tiled bitmap. To start with, I am trying to see if I can just change the text colors.

I know the gtkrc is being correctly loaded because if I change the theme name, it is reflected when I start the application.

However if I try to apply a style as mentioned on http://zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Config_Files.html

the style does not get applied. Is there something basic I am missing out?

gtk-theme-name = "MS-Windows"

style "mycolors" 
{
    base: "#333333"
    text: "#444444"
}

widget "*.zim-pageview" style "mycolors"

Answer 1

The syntax given by the Config_File manual does not work for me either.

However I have tried the following syntax and it works for

pixmap_path "/path-to-background-image-files"

style "mycolors" 
{
  base[NORMAL]   = "black"
  base[SELECTED] = "#6699cc"   # npp deep black
  text[NORMAL]   = "#c0c0c0"   # windows cmd default color
  bg_pixmap[NORMAL] = "nexus.png"
}

widget "*.zim-pageview" style "mycolors"
widget "*.zim-pageindex" style "mycolors"
class "GtkWidget" style "mycolors"

I have referenced this link: Silas S. Brown's .gtkrc file, and for bg_pixmap, I referenced this one: pixmap sample