Hi guys,

Thanks for your answers. My script is a telnet client that displays ANSI colours. Most users are going to expect a black background for that (since it's been the default telnet colour scheme since the dawn of time). That's why, on this rare occasion, I don't want to respect the user's choice of desktop theme.

(The test script changes the colours of several widgets - I hope it's clear that I was trying to demonstrate that ->modify_bg works for most of the widgets, but not for textview.)

$TextView->modify_bg ('normal', $greyl);

This really does have no effect on the textview's background colour, at least not on my Ubuntu box, even if I change it to

$TextView->modify_bg ('normal', $redl);