On 05 Apr 2003 13:18:07 +1000, Scott Smedley wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I know this is not valid FVWM syntax but it shows what I'm trying to do:
>
> *FvwmButtons: Fore `cat HOME/.fvwmColors | cut -f3`
> *FvwmButtons: Back `cat HOME/.fvwmColors | cut -f2`
>
> DeePBLue>> cat ~/.fvwmColors
> violetred4 yellow darkcyan antiquewhite
>
> What's the best way to get this behaviour? I tried using a PipeRead:
The best way is to use colorsets, of course.
Colorset 10 fg AntiqueWhite, bg RoyalBlue
*FvwmButtons: Colorset 10
This way you may change the colors of FvwmButtons on the fly without
restarting it, and reuse the same colors in other places.
Colorset 10 fg yellow, bg darknavy
I would do something like this to solve you problem:
SetEnv COLOR_FILE $[HOME]/.fvwmColors
PipeRead "test -r $[COLOR_FILE] && echo Colorset 10 fg `awk '{ print $3 }' $[COLOR_FILE]`, bg `awk '{ print $4 }' $[COLOR_FILE]`"
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Sat Apr 05 2003 - 07:15:48 BST