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Re: several mac68k/X/pkg problems



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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