I'm trying to change the background color of a TextView widget. Here is one example of what I have tried. 

my $w = Gtk2::Window->new(q/toplevel/);
my $color = Gtk2::Gdk::Color->parse(q/yellow/);
my $eb = Gtk2::EventBox->new();
my $sw = Gtk2::ScrolledWindow->new(undef, undef);
my $tv = Gtk2::TextView->new();
$eb->add($tv);
$eb->modify_bg(q/normal/, $color);
$sw->add_with_viewport($eb);
$w->add($sw);
$w->show_all();

Gtks->main();

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This doesn't work. I'm able to make the $sw yellow, but as soon as i add the $tv it isn't. Any ideas? Thanks, Edgar

In reply to add color to a Gtk2::TextView by navalned

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