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.
>>
>
> Shadow/hilight colors for 3d effect are now calculated using a modified
> motif algorithm. This is done to ensure the 3d effect is visible for very
> dark and very light colors.
>
> You have 2 choices. Replace dark blue color with something more light
> until the shadow color will be darker (and not lighter as it is now).
>
> 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).
>
> Maybe in the future there will be an option to choose between the motif
> algorithm (what you called bad in screenshots) and gtk (you called good).
> Or better yet, there may be an option to tune the motif constants (so it
> behaves as the gtk algorithm). But again, with colorsets you should not
> rely on any algorithm, you may specify shadow/hilight colors yourself.
>
> Regards,
> Mikhael.
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).
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New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
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Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 11:03:59 GMT