NAME
xcolmix - an RGB colour mixer
SYNOPSIS
xcolmix [-display host:dpy] [-name appname] [-visual class] [-depth d]
[-private] [-shared] [-stdcmap] [-debug d] [-sync] rgb-database-file
The rgb-database-file is the file which holds the X-windows colour
definitions, when absent: /etc/X11/rgb.txt is used.
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the xcolmix, command. This manual
page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page.
xcolmix is a colour mixer that enables you to mix your own colours in
order to determine three values (the R/G/B code, or red-green-blue mix)
of a colour. You can use those colours to, e.g., define the foreground
or background of X applications which support it. Furthermore, xcolmix
lets you retrieve RGB values from the X system's database of
`predefined' colours.
xcolmix is non longer actively maintained upstream. If you would like
to take it over, talk to the author: Karel Kubat <karel@icce.rug.nl>.
OPTIONS
xcolmix is built with the XForms Graphical User Interface Toolkit for
X, and hence supports a number of flags which are interpreted by
XForms. The flags must be stated before any file arguments, and are:
-display host:dpy
defines the X display.
-name appname
defines the application name (default is xcolmix).
-visual class
TrueColor, PseudoColor etc...
-depth d
visual depth in bits
-private
forces a private colourmap.
-shared
forces a shared colourmap.
-stdcmap
forces a standard colourmap.
-debug l
prints debugging information, l is the level.
-sync forces synchronous mode.
USING XCOLMIX
Xcolmix lets you define a separate background and a foreground colour
for a part of the mixer window (the logo). Use this logo to, e.g.,
compare whether a particular text colour looks good on a particular
background.
Use the `foreground / background' buttons to select between the
foreground or the background. Then, use the three silders labelled
`red', `green' and `blue' to change the colour.
The button `lookup' starts a second window, with a browser showing the
system colour database. The default database name is /etc/X11/rgb.txt,
though you can overrule this filename with a file argument in the
command that starts up xcolmix.
AUTHOR
Karel Kubat <karel@icce.rug.nl>
This manual page was written by Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org>, for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).