> -----Original Message----- > From: Shing-Fat Fred Ma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Is there an X-tool in solaris that allows > me to dial up different RGB values and > see what text looks like on a background > of another RGB value?
See `Xvnc -help` and use the option to define the "rgb.txt" file. Or just edit the origional. You (might?) need to restart Xvnc to see the differences. > > The situtation is that I'm using TightVNC > to connect to a solaris8 box > (www.tightvnc.com). I use the default > 8-bit true color mode because I have The newest Xvnc servers default to 16 bits!. > difficulty with the flashiness of pseudocolor. > I do not use more color planes because > of bandwidth considerations, and due to > stability (I haven't been able to successfully > compile newer versions of TightVNC). But > 8 bits is very coarse, so I have to tweak all > my colors (I spend alot of time staring > at gvim's syntax colorization). I recal there is an app that shows the actual color definition, I don't know if it can alter something on this site. What does `xset` on this behalf? > > It would be very convenient if I could > just dial in RGB values for background > and text using sliders, then hard code it > when I found a good one. Not only would > it be useful for gvim, but also for twm. > If I had two desktops, one as a window > within another, I want my twm colors to > be different for the two desktops. Other- > wise, it's easy to lose track of which desk > top an xterm or matlab window resides in. > You can really mess up your work that way. In my prevoius job, we had (on solaris 2.5.1) an alternate X library for the pseudo colors: it allocated a (configurable?) rainbow in the colormap and all apps just got a color from the rainbow, close to the requested color. I don't recal any details on this but it worked nice: All apps that just use colors got a library path that uses this library. Apps that abuse the pseudo colormap got an alternate library path without this library. > > Using sliders is especially handy when > color quantization is coarse because > you can muck around with command- > line color settings forever. The colors > don't respond well with very few bits > each. With a slider, you can tell > right away. CBee _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
