Not working in Mint 22.3

Hello!

Small problem! I can't change the Foreground property of the TextEditor. Background works fine, but not Foreground.
Using Mint 22.3 and Gambas 3.21.4. qt4.
Anyone has the same problem or did I mess up something in my comp?

Thank you.

Berkut said

Anyone has the same problem or did I mess up something in my comp?

From “TextEditor foreground”, March 15th 2026, 7:22 PM

You might have sabotaged your computer. Either that or…

TextEditor is a special control. The code editor in the IDE is a TextEditor.
You can set its Background, but the Text (Foreground) supports Syntax Highlighting, so forget about foreground.

TextEditor has a Highlight property to set the kind of highlight you want (like Gambas or sh etc)
TextEditor has a Theme property where you can set the highlight theme (just like in the IDE, theme is color combinations used to highlight the specific highlight chosen)

In illustration below my IDE code editor had Gambas Highlight, as it is Gambas code, but you can set the Theme, mine is Obsidian. This determines both the background (black) and colors used for foreground (highlighted text in multiple colors).


Highlight theme in Preferences set to Obsidian gives code highlighting as shown on the left

Read the wiki on TextEditor for details.

Enjoy..