On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 04:17:09AM +0000, Erik Christiansen via Dng wrote:
> On 25.06.25 20:29, Steve Litt wrote:
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> > Erik Christiansen via Dng said on Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:55:09 +0000
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> > >colours='-fg yellow -bg darkslategrey -cr red';
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> > >uxterm $colours -sb -rightbar -geometry 100x50+300+10 -bc +vb &
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> >
>
> > I wish you'd told me this 25 years ago, but today is the second best
>
> > time :-). Now here's a tough one that I haven't been able to find an
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> > answer to: How do I set -bg to an rgb value in the uxterm command
>
> > itself, or a shellscript that calls the command?

> Dunno how to faff directly with raw hex rgb values on the commandline,

I found faffing instrutions in the online documentation. Of course the
hard part of that was finding that documentation.

Elsewhere in X, one writes hexadecimal colour values as rgb:23/45/ef
where 233, 45, and ef are one to four digit hexadecimal rgb values.

The following worked for me, using xterm

uxterm -fg rgb:20/30/40 -bg rgb:99/aa/bb &

Colours are dscribed in http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/XWindow-User-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.5

They can be configured in an .Xresources file, described in http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/XWindow-User-HOWTO-8.html

That whole manual is worth looking at: http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/XWindow-User-HOWTO.html#toc8

Have fun!

-- hendrik