On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 15:20 -0500, Gregory Hayes wrote: > If I am approching this wrong, let me know. I attempted to do this > with a Gtk.Drawable, but I could never seem to render a Pango layout > to it... Gtk.Label is a NoWindow widget, so in order to do what you want you have to create an EventBox, put the Label inside of it, and call EventBox.ModifyBg --Todd