how to change color of error message

[ExpandingMan]

I for the life of me can't seem to figure out how to set the color of the text that appears when I type an argument into the prompt that results in an error (e.g. the name of a program that doesn't exist).

My config can be found here.

Anyone know how I can do this? Thanks!

[DaveDavenport]

See manpage: https://davatorium.github.io/rofi/1.7.5/rofi-theme.5/#error-message-structure

[ExpandingMan]

Yes, I have seen that, but I can't seem to figure out how to use it. I have tried

error-message {
    text-color: @drac-red; 
}

and the same for x.error-message for various values of x but none of them seems to work. I also can't seem to find error or error-message in any of the many examples available.

[DaveDavenport]

You are changing the color of the error-box, not the textbox that displays text..

rofi  -theme-str 'textbox { text-color: red; }'  -show drun

or

error-message {
text-color: red;
}
textbox {
text-color: inherit;
}

to test:

rofi  -theme-str 'error-message { text-color: red; } textbox { text-color: inherit;} '  -show drun

[ExpandingMan]

Ah, I see, thanks!

Out of curiosity, why does

error-message.textbox {
    text-color: @drac-red;
}

not work?

[DaveDavenport]

Why would it work?

[ExpandingMan]

I was envisioning this configuration as a tree such that branches can be specified with a . separated path, but I guess that is not what is going on. Anyway, doesn't matter, I've been able to fix the one thing that was really broken with my configuration.

[DaveDavenport]

My first alpha used to be fully hierarchical but people complained it was to complex and hard to grasp. Therefor it was removed.

Please check the documentation for the current syntax, I tried to make it complete.