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

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:17:53 +0000

On 27 Dec 2001 06:54:16 -0800, Tenebrae wrote:
>
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
>
> > On 26 Dec 2001 23:21:00 -0800, Tenebrae wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Screenshot:
> http://www.niceboots.com/~tenebrae/pics/tenebrae_fvwm2.4.3_screenshot.jpg
...
> Style * BackColor PapayaWhip, ForeColor LightSkyBlue
> Style * HilightFore #ffe22d, HilightBack #3C025E
...
> Style "*" Title, Color Black/#22152B

Don't use Style Color, it was obsoleted years ago and may be removed.

> > 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.
>
> Probably something to do with the Title I set...

The problem is, as I said, in CDE-like shadow/hilite color calculations.
In 2.2.x, GTK-like calculations were used, so for the black background
shadow color was black (some people think this is good). In 2.4.x, the
shadow color for the black (or almost black) background is gray.

Currently you can't do anything except for using colorsets to replace gray
with whatever you want, like on the first line here (your colors used):

  *FvwmTheme: Colorset 1 bg #22152B, fg black, sh #110A15, hi #442a52
  *FvwmTheme: Colorset 2 bg #3C025E, fg #ffe22d

  Style * Colorset 1 # inactive windows
  Style * HilightColorset 2 # active window

  DestroyFunc StartFunction
  AddToFunc StartFunction
  + I ModuleSynchronous FvwmTheme

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Thu Dec 27 2001 - 14:21:25 GMT

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