Get font color of the current GTK theme

Question

I need to get the font color of the current theme.

I found this question that explains it how to do it in C with gtk_style_lookup_color, but it seems that the function is deprecated.

Making more researches I found the new function gtk_style_context_lookup_color

But I have problems understanding the docs. Also, when I try to call it by using Gtk.style_context_lookup_color( .. ) I get that it doesn't exists!

Is it because I need to call it with something like GtkStyleContext.style_context_lookup_color(arg1,arg2) ?

Infatuation

Answer 1

I found the answer using gtk.settings.

    settings=Gtk.Settings.get_default()

    colors=settings.get_property("gtk-color-scheme")
    colors=colors.split("\n")

    for color in colors:
        if 'text' in color:
            text_color=color.split(':')[1].strip()
            print text_color
            break

It seems that the "gtk-color-scheme" property stores all the colors of the theme, so if you are searching for any other color you can find it in the same way!

Infatuation

Unfortunately, color schemes seem to be deprecated now. – Baillieu

It seems you're [developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html](right). What a shame! As of now, it still seems to work. – Kosaka