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I would like to be able to change the background color in gThumb 3.2.7 to black as listed in the answer to this older post, gThumb Browser and Viewer should have black background, how to do? is there a way to do this in gThumb 3.2.7?

PS. I checked in d-conf editor and as far as I can tell the old answer does not seem to fit, Then again I could be brain damaged and somehow missed it?

DEH
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I've mixed the applications and this answer is not about gThumb. But I've decided to leave it here at the moment. This answer is about the application ImageViewer, that actually is called [1] EoG - Eye of GNOME.

You can change the background colour of ImageViewer through its settings: ImageViewer Menu > Preferences > Image View [tab].

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If you want to change the background colour within the application ImageViewer via dconf-editor go to: org > gnome > eog > view > background-color.

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  • Where rgb(255,255,0) is the RGB code of the yellow colour [2].

Or use gsettings [3], if you want to change this setting via the command line:

  • to get the current value use:

    gsettings get org.gnome.eog.view background-color

  • to set a new value use:

    gsettings set org.gnome.eog.view background-color 'rgb(255,255,0)'
pa4080
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The option image-viewer > black-background is not longer available in gThumb since the version 3.2.0: [1] [2]

version 3.2.0
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* always use a dark background in the image viewer

version 3.1.1
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* Image viewer: use dark background by default, and more neutral color instead of black

From ChangeLog for version 3.2.0: [3]

2003-02-03  Paolo Bacchilega  <paolo.bacch@tin.it>
    * src/gthumb.schemas:
    * src/gthumb-window.c (window_new, pref_black_background_changed)
    * src/fullscreen.c (fullscreen_stop, fullscreen_start): added a black_background option to always use a black background for the image viewer.

A possible way to change the background is to edit the source code and recompile. [4] But I'm not a so familiar with programming and unfortunately can't help with that.

pa4080
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