Re: FVWM: Ugliness after upgrading

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:43:04 +0000

On 28 Feb 2002 10:05:38 -0700, Jeff Shipman wrote:
>
> Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > On 27 Feb 2002 18:32:27 -0700, Jeff Shipman wrote:
> >
> >>I started out using fvwm v2.2.4, and after
> >>upgrading to v2.4.4 my windows started looking
> >>ugly. I'm having trouble finding the option to
> >>get rid of the ugly border. Attached are a good
> >>and bad .png file with the respective screenshots.
> >>These gray borders are appearing everywhere, in
> >>my menus, between my windowlist items, buttons,
> >>etc. Please help me change the color back to
> >>what it was before.
> >
> > Another posibility is to use colorsets instead of regular colors. Then you
> > may defined fg, bg, shadow and hilight colors for windows (active or not).
> > I answered this question a lot of times, but I may do this again if you
> > need some help regarding colorsets (try the man pages first).
>
> Could you explain it? I read through FvwmTheme, and I
> tried the following:
>
> *FvwmTheme: Colorset 0 fg darkblue bg darkblue sh darkblue
>
> Style "*" NoIcon,Colorset 0
>
> just to try something out, but it doesn't work. I just get
> white colors (like as if it's a default).

You should also run FvwmTheme module, better to do this in StartFunction.

See also (the first is almost your "gray" question):

  http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/archive/0112/msg00274.html
  http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/archive/0112/msg00105.html
  http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/archive/0202/msg00043.html
  http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/archive/0202/msg00274.html

Unfortunately search does not work in archives.
Jason, can you install any searcher, like http://www.mnogosearch.org/ ?

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 11:43:33 GMT

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