Customize Terminal or Edit Window in J-GTK

To customize an Edit or Term window for the Gtk IDE:

1. Using the files ~addons/gui/gtk/config/term.xml and ~addons/gui/gtk/config/edit.xml as templates, create new files in ~config/ with the desired name (note that the default "template" files are likely to move to ~addons/ide/gtk/config eventually)
2. edit the new xml files so that the "id" property of the "style-scheme" tag matches the file name.

3. Add color definitions as desired and change the colors used for each defined J element. See Style Scheme Definition Reference (or following) for the full gtksourceview reference for style schemes. For a long list of named colors, look here. Basic colors like red, green, and blue need not be defined but the names must be preceded by "#" when used.

4. Use Edit|Configure|Gtk Ide to open ~config/gtkide.cfg and edit the EditScheme and/or TermScheme nouns to reflect the name of your new custom style scheme file.

• Note that the files currently in ~system/config/ should not be there and should be ignored as red herrings.

Example Customization: Terminal with Dark Background and Light Foreground

A file ("termDarkBackground.xml" in this example) with the following information should be saved in your "~config" area (e.g. "/Users/[your ID]/j64-701/config" in Windows 7). This change requires a re-start of your J session to take effect.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<style-scheme id="termDarkBackground" _name="term (syntax highlights)" version="1.0">

  <!-- Palette -->
  <color name="blue"             value="#0000FF"/>
  <color name="light-blue"       value="#4444FF"/>
  <color name="papaya"           value="#FFEFD5"/>
  <color name="pink"             value="#FFC0CB"/>
  <color name="high"             value="#E5E5E5"/>
  <color name="bordeaux"         value="#A52A2A"/>
  <color name="cyan"             value="#008A8C"/>
  <color name="cornsilk"         value="#fff8dc"/>
  <color name="gray"             value="#888888"/>
  <color name="green"            value="#009900"/>
  <color name="green-blue"       value="#009966"/>
  <color name="light-green"      value="#DDFCDE"/>
  <color name="light-yellow"     value="#FCFCDD"/>
  <color name="light-gray"       value="#F5F5F5"/>
  <color name="navy"             value="#000080"/>
  <color name="dark-orange"      value="#DD9900"/>
  <color name="darker-red"       value="#DD4444"/>
  <color name="purple"           value="#A020F0"/>
  <color name="violet"           value="#6A5ACD"/>
  <color name="dark-blue"        value="#0057AE"/>
  <color name="dark-red"         value="#800000"/>
  <color name="dark-green"       value="#008000"/>
  <color name="brown"            value="#B07E00"/>

  <style name="text"              foreground="light-yellow" background="navy"/>
  <style name="selection"         foreground="light-gray" background="dark-red"/>
  <style name="current-line"      background="blue"/>

  <!-- Bracket Matching -->
  <style name="bracket-match"     bold="true"/>
  <style name="bracket-mismatch"  background="#red" bold="true"/>

  <!-- Search Matching -->
  <style name="search-match"      background="#yellow"/>

  <!-- Comments -->
  <style name="def:comment"       foreground="gray" italic="true" bold="false"/>

  <!-- Constants -->
  <style name="def:string"        foreground="light-yellow"/>

  <!-- Others -->
  <style name="def:note"          foreground="#BF0303" background="#F7E7E7" bold="true" italic="false"/>
  <style name="def:error"         foreground="pink" underline="true"/>
  <style name="def:underlined"    underline="true"/>

  <!-- J Language specific styles -->
  <style name="j:adverb"      foreground="#yellow"/>
  <style name="j:comment"     use-style="def:comment"/>
  <style name="j:conjunction" foreground="#orange"/>
  <style name="j:control"     foreground="light-gray"/>
  <style name="j:error"       foreground="pink"/>
  <style name="j:exparg"      foreground="light-green" italic="true" />
  <style name="j:global"      foreground="pink"/>
  <style name="j:local"       foreground="violet"/>
  <style name="j:noun"        foreground="cornsilk" bold="true"/>
  <style name="j:noundef"     foreground="cyan"/>
  <style name="j:number"      foreground="papaya"/>
  <style name="j:parens"      foreground="#white"/>
  <style name="j:primitive"   foreground="cyan"/>
  <style name="j:string"      use-style="def:string"/>
  <style name="j:verb"        foreground="light-green"/>

</style-scheme>

Scheme Definition Reference

Reference to the GtkSourceView style scheme definition file format.

Overview

• This is an overview of the Style Scheme Definition XML format, describing the meaning and usage of every element and attribute. The formal definition is stored in the RelaxNG schema file style.rng which should be installed on your system in the directory ${PREFIX}/share/gtksourceview-2.0/ (where ${PREFIX} can be /usr/ or /usr/local/ if you have installed from source.

The toplevel tag in a style scheme file is <style-scheme>. It has the following attributes:

style-scheme tag may contain the following tags:

Each style tag describes a single element of style scheme (it corresponds to #GtkSourceStyle object). It has the following attributes:

The following are names of styles which control #GtkSourceView appearance: