On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:56:46PM +0200, Riswick, J.G.A. van wrote:
> HI
>
> I just found in the mail archive how to make text shadowed.
> It looks great! As for calculating the color, in my setup
> I use the 'selection' color from the motif color calculations.
> This one is a bit lighter than the 'shadow' color.
>
> A problem with drawing a shadow behind text, is that it only
> looks good when the shadow can be made darker than the color
> of the actual text. Eg if the text color is black, the fgsh
> maybe should be set to the background color so that effectively
> no shadow appears. Otherwise, one gets an ugly doubely drawn
> text, in almost the same color.
>
> Furthermore, I also tried to use the feature in the pager, for
> the desklabels. (Like is done in CDE) This hoever, doesn't seem
> to work (yet?).
>
At present time the feature is only implemented in fvwm, FvwmIdent
and FvwmTaskBar. It will be present in all modules (but FvwmGtk and
maybe FvwmWharf) in a few days.
Regards, Olivier
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Received on Sun May 19 2002 - 14:45:52 BST