On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 02:40:44PM +0100, Ingo Wardinski wrote:
> Hi all,
> I try to set a widget foreground color to differ from the default, i.e.
>
> WindowTitle {Weather_applet}
> WindowSize 210 210
> WindowPosition 1038 634
> Colorset 12
> Widget 1
> Property
> Type ItemDraw
> Size 100 15
> Position 71 82
> Font "shadow=0 se:xft:sans:size=7:antialias=True"
> Flags NoFocus NoReliefString Left
> ForeColor { orange }
> Main
> Case message of
> SingleClic:
> Begin
> Quit
> End
> End
> where the default is defined by coloset 9
> Colorset 9 fg #ffffff, bg #f1eee0, hi #f1eee0, sh #f1eee0, fgsh #f1eee0, Tint
> black 35, RootTransparent
>
> However, fvwm(-2.5.23) is complaining: Cannot parse color " orange "
> What does that mean, and more generally, how can I set up a widget fg
> color differently from the default?
notice that the script isn't striping out any spaces, the reason it can't find
that color is because you have additional spaces. when it tries to find the
color " orange " in the list it can't match it to anything.
What you want is ForeColor {orange}
jaimos
