Dmitry Gutov writes: > On 13.02.2021 22:53, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote: >> Dmitry Gutov writes: >>> That's not a GTK3 build, though, right? >> configure.ac suggests otherwise: >> pgtk ) >> term_header=pgtkterm.h >> with_gtk3=yes >> USE_X_TOOLKIT=none >> ;; >> As does the GTK3 seen in the system-configuration-features part of my >> signature in the OP. > > No, I'm talking about your "reference" screenshot. Ah, yes that would be Lucid. > You are not comparing pgtk to the GTK3 build, which I think should be the > reference when discussing it. That's fair, but my intention wasn't so much a comparison with GTK3 as a question for how [P]GTK3 should work in Emacs. Let me know if I should take this elsewhere. >>>> Repeat the same on feature/pgtk: >>>> I understand that each toolkit has its look & feel, and that colour >>>> perception is subjective, but the default contrast on pgtk strikes me as >>>> a bit too low for text editing. >>> >>> Seems like it uses the same background color as the GTK3 build (the current >>> one)? And that is probably the color of the window background. >>> >>> My current GTK theme has a bit darker windows, so the background color looks >>> like fine here, FWIW. >> I don't use a desktop environment, and I'm not really familiar with GTK, >> but here's my $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini: >> [Settings] >> gtk-font-name = DejaVu Sans 10 >> gtk-icon-theme-name = Adwaita >> gtk-recent-files-enabled = false >> gtk-recent-files-limit = 0 >> gtk-recent-files-max-age = 0 >> gtk-theme-name = Adwaita > > It's some color within the Adwaita theme, then. Okay, but what alternatives are there? I have the following directories under /usr/share/themes: Adwaita, Adwaita-dark, Default, Emacs, HighContrast, Raleigh. Replacing Adwaita with Default, Emacs, or Raleigh in settings.ini makes no difference. With Adwaita-dark, I see the following: