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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Larry Marso <lsmarso@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: specifying colors with -fg/-bg
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On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Larry Marso wrote:

> I've picked a few colors I'd like to use as foreground/background combinations
> in xterms, through the -fg, -bg commands.
> 
> What I have is the RGB/HSV codes.  How do I translate these into numbers the
> -fg/-bg commands will understand?

Use RGB hexadecimal codes, prefixed with a #:

xterm -fg #nnnnnn -bg #nnnnnn

> 
> Regards.
> ----------------------------------
> Larry Marso <lsmarso@panix.com>
> date: 23-Feb-97
> Time: 19:56:35
> 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."