On 26 Dec 2001 23:21:00 -0800, Tenebrae wrote:
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> This sounds cool if it would work for me. I can't seem for the life of me
> to get the grey border out of my inactive windows.
> I have a nice dark purple border with a thin grey border around the
> outside of my inactive windows. I'd rather that was another shade of
> purple.
> Also, the raised buttons etc. in my inactive windows have a grey 3d
> shading. I'd love to get rid of that and replace it with another shade of
> purple.
> I'm not getting the man pages or something.
> Most .fvwm2rc files seem to use a pixmap for their window borders. I
> prefer a thin border with a bit of colour to it.
> I got it to work in FVWM 2.2.4, but am having no luck in 2.4.3.
> Still trying to stamp out all dull grey in my desktop...
It is hard to understand what "a nice dark purple border with a thin grey
border" mean without a config and/or screenshot.
If you don't like the CDE-like shadow/hilite color calculations (I also
don't like them) where the shadow color may be lighter than the background
color, you should use colorsets and define "sh" and "hi" colors yourself.
But shadow color of dark purple should not be pure gray like you say, it
should be something like light purple, so probably your problem is other.
You can't use colorset commands together with the old-style commands,
i.e. HilightColorset overrides HilightBack and HilightFore.
Also, in my parent message I intentionally did not mention TitleStyle,
it overrides BackColor and HilightBack (and Colorset and HilightColorset).
If I was screwed with configs, I would start with an empty .fvwm2rc (or
with only bindings and menus) and add window look commands one by one
(don't add a command if it does not do you anything good). This way the
config is minimal and readable. For example start with this .fvwm2rc:
Style * BackColor purple, ForeColor gray # inactive windows
Style * HilightBack MediumPurple, HilightFore white # active window
Key F11 A CS Restart
Key F12 A CS Quit
Or decide to use powerful colorsets and start with this .fvwm2rc:
*FvwmTheme: Colorset 1 bg #a020d0, fg #c0c0c0, sh #9010c0, hi #b030e0
*FvwmTheme: Colorset 2 bg #9070c0, fg #ffffff, sh #8060b0, hi #a080d0
Style * Colorset 1 # inactive windows
Style * HilightColorset 2 # active window
DestroyFunc StartFunction
AddToFunc StartFunction
+ I ModuleSynchronous FvwmTheme
If needed, download fvwm-themes and learn its configs, it uses colorsets.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Thu Dec 27 2001 - 13:25:25 GMT