Since that's what renders the background. Otherwise the event box will
get the regular window background and will look bad.
gtk_widget_set_valign (label, GTK_ALIGN_CENTER);
gtk_style_context_get_background_color (context, GTK_STATE_FLAG_SELECTED, &color);
- gtk_widget_override_background_color (label, 0, &color);
+ gtk_widget_override_background_color (eventbox, 0, &color);
gtk_style_context_get_color (context, GTK_STATE_FLAG_SELECTED, &color);
gtk_widget_override_color (label, 0, &color);