William Duke wrote: > On Tue, 2006-16-05 at 02:51 -0400, thelarsons3%cox.net@localhost wrote: > > When trying to run aterm (my preferred terminal app) I get a similar error > > ''aterm: can't load color "White", colorID = 0, (29)'' just before it > > aborts. This package runs fine on the machine that built it. I assume > > these are due to a missing definition file somewhere, but what? > I encountered this problem with aterm yesterday, while attempting to > color match the foreground (text) color with that of xmms. Do you know > if there is a list of available colors for use in aterm? /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt > I know all of the basic colors, like blue, green, red, yellow, white, > etcetera. I'm wondering if it's possible to get different shades or > hues of a certain color though. For example, I'm using aterm with > transparency and a gray tint with a blue foreground, but I'd like to use > a lighter blue than the one that I get by simply specifying -fg blue. Use the 24-bit RGB format: #RRGGBB. Most tools that handle images have a way to select a color which can also be used to find the right color without too much trial and error. For example, gtk-demo which is installed along with Gtk+ 2.x. -- Christian
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