On 19 May 2002 13:56:46 +0200, Riswick, J.G.A. van wrote: > > I just found in the mail archive how to make text shadowed. > It looks great! As for calculating the color, in my setup > I use the 'selection' color from the motif color calculations. > This one is a bit lighter than the 'shadow' color. > > A problem with drawing a shadow behind text, is that it only > looks good when the shadow can be made darker than the color > of the actual text. Eg if the text color is black, the fgsh > maybe should be set to the background color so that effectively > no shadow appears. Otherwise, one gets an ugly doubely drawn > text, in almost the same color.
Well, if you read the thread fully, I suggested an algorithm that gives a non-ugly shadow color, including the black text case. > Furthermore, I also tried to use the feature in the pager, for > the desklabels. (Like is done in CDE) This hoever, doesn't seem > to work (yet?). What exactly does not work for you? Try "DesktopName 0 new-name" in FvwmConsole and you should see a new name appearing in a pager. Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
