Re: FVWM: colors, etc...

From: Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 19:06:21 -0230 (NDT)

On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Sam Krishnabhat wrote:

> Neil Zanella sez...
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there anything besides the sample config file and the man
> > pages that will explain how to customize a window manager such as fvwm?
> >
> > I in my .fvwmrc in the "set up the colors" section there is stuff like
> >
> > HiBackColor #c06077
> >
> > StdBackColor #60a0c0
>
> i think these contain three components. Just like way in following.
>
> 240 255 255 azure1
>
> They may be hex equivalent of the above interpretation.

I was thinking that that might be the case, but was not sure.
So what are the valid strings?

>
> > etc ...
> >
> >
> > I know how to use the showrgb command and use the xcolors program to see
> > the various colors but I don't know how to interpret these alphanumeric
> > codes for colors nor do I know where to find a more complete list than
> > that given by showrgb, nor do I know what the numbers on the left are when
> > I give the showrgb command.
>
> Have yo looked at this: /usr/openwin/lib/rgb.txt
> -sam

On my system it's /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt

I believe this is the same thing as the output of the showrgb command
except that the first line sais:

! $XConsortium: rgb.txt,v 10.41 94/02/20 18:39:36 rws Exp $

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