Background color for Tk in Python

Question

I\'m writing a slideshow program with Tkinter, but I don\'t know how to change the background color to black instead of the standard light gray. How can this be done?

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Answer 1

config is another option:

widget1.config(bg='black')
widget2.config(bg='#000000')

or:

widget1.config(background='black')
widget2.config(background='#000000')

Answer 2

widget['bg'] = '#000000'

or

widget['background'] = '#000000'

would also work as hex-valued colors are also accepted.

Answer 3

I know this is kinda an old question but:

root["bg"] = "black"

will also do what you want and it involves less typing.

Answer 4

root.configure(background='black')

or more generally

<widget>.configure(background='black')

Answer 5

Its been updated so

root.configure(background="red")

is now:

root.configure(bg="red")