Question

I add a button to HBox, with expand equal to False, but I want the button to have more spacing between its label and border. I assume it is “inner-border” property, but it is read-only. How can I set it to e.g. 4px?

Answer 1

gtk.Label is a subclass of gtk.Misc which has the method set_padding. If you get the label out of the gtk.Button then you can just call set_padding on it.

You could do something like:

label = gtk.Label("Hello World")
button = gtk.Button()

/* Add 10 pixels border around the label */
label.set_padding(10, 10)

/* Add the label to the button */
button.add(label)

/* Show the label as the button will assume it is already shown */
label.show()