# How to set the default background color of render view?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-set-the-default-background-color-of-render-view/16270
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 7, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-set-the-default-background-color-of-render-view/16270 "2025-03-07T10:04:38Z")
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### Author: ![flipper](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/flipper/32/15693_2.png) [@flipper](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/flipper)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-set-the-default-background-color-of-render-view/16270/1 "2025-03-07T10:04:38Z")

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Hi, I want to call paraview in my Qt application, and set the default background color of Render View when paraview is initialized. How can I realize this please? Thank you very much!

 ![paraview](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/3X/5/2/52b8ab45698b93f0c3be2bfce0778ca398243449.png)

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### Author: ![Lucas\_Givord](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/lucas_givord/32/6851_2.png) [@Lucas\_Givord](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Lucas_Givord)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2025, 10:12am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-set-the-default-background-color-of-render-view/16270/2 "2025-03-07T10:12:56Z")

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Hi @flipper,

Background color is a setting in ParaView, so I guess you should be able to set it in the related class which it should be `vtkPVRenderViewSettings`

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### Author: ![flipper](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/flipper/32/15693_2.png) [@flipper](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/flipper)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2025, 2:47am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-set-the-default-background-color-of-render-view/16270/4 "2025-03-10T02:47:00Z")

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I understand, thank you very much 👏