color of title bar
Igor Pechtchanski
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Tue Oct 22 07:51:00 GMT 2002
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Rick Umali wrote:
> Yadin Y. Goldschmidt asked:
> > In rootless mode, how I do I change the color of the window title bar? It
> > always appears green and I would like to change it to blue ...
>
> I believe you may need to explore the window manager. Starting the X
> Server with the default startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh normally fires up
> a window manager. By default, it's typically twm. twm (or whichever
> window manager you're using) is in charge of the title bars, and their
> colors.
>
> I created a .twmrc in my home directory with these lines:
>
> Color
> {
> DefaultBackground "rgb:2/a/9"
> DefaultForeground "gray85"
> TitleBackground "rgb:2/a/9"
> TitleForeground "gray85"
> }
>
> Check the twm manual page for more details.
Or try fvwm - it has a mode that makes it look just like Windows 95/NT4.
I'm sure with a bit of customizing you could even make it look like XP.
Igor
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