Re: FVWM: foreground/background icon or border colors?

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 17:14:35 +0000

On 26 Dec 2001 10:19:37 -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>
> In standard fvwm2, is it possible to set the foreground/background icon
> or border colors, independently of other colors? All I can see to do is
>
> Style * Color white/grey
>
> which sets both the fore/back icon colors and the window border colors,

Yes, icon title colors and window title colors can't be separated.
This is not changed in 2.4.x.

> as far as I can tell. Although the active window border colors can be
> controlled with HilightColor, I don't see a control for the inactive
> window decorations. Alternatively, I see no control for icon
> fore/back colors, either.

Inactive border color (as well as background) is controlled by
Style * Color (that was obsoleted in 2.2.x in favor of Style * BackColor).

> I'm using fvwm 2.2.5 that came with red hat linux 7.2. I looked at the
> 2.4.4 distribution; apparently the FvwmIconMan module supports this now,
> but I confess I didn't try it, it uses up too much space. I just want
> to use the built-in IconBox feature.

The following can't be used in 2.2.x. If you decide to use 2.4.x,
delete any Color and HilightColor lines and use:

  Style * BackColor bg1, ForeColor fg1
  Style * HilightBack bg2, HilightFore fg2

Or use colorsets instead (see the man pages):

  Style * Colorset num1
  Style * HilightColorset num2

If you use colorsets, you may specify customized shadow/hilite background
colors for 3d effect. It is also possible to specify separate colors for
window borders (there is no such thing as icon borders):

  Style * BorderColorset num3
  Style * HilightBorderColorset num4

If you need to be able to specify icon title colors different from window
title colors (most people don't), feel free to submit a feature request.

Regards,
Mikhael.
--
Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>.
To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a
message to majordomo_at_fvwm.org.
To report problems, send mail to fvwm-owner_at_fvwm.org.
Received on Wed Dec 26 2001 - 11:14:50 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Mon Aug 29 2016 - 19:37:52 BST