From: "Conway S. Smith" <beolach@comcast.net>
To: Jeremy Abbott <jkbullfrog@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: aterm pseudo transparancy tint
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:44:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41EE8049.9090507@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41ED16B9.3080206@comcast.net>
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Jeremy Abbott wrote:
> Jeremy Abbott wrote:
>
>
>>Does anyone know if there is a way to set the tint color of an aterm
>>to be random? Right now I am executing the following:
>>
>>aterm -tr -tint blue -trsb -rv -geometry 179x33 --font4
>>
>>I know I can write a script to randomize the color if I need to, I'm
>>just not sure how to implement it with the -tint switch.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jeremy Abbott
>>jkbullfrog@comcast.net
>>
>>
>
> It just occured to me that I can do this by writing a script to randomly
> choose from a list of aterm calls, rather than just randomizing the tint
> color. I can do this if need be, but am still curious if just the tint
> color by itself can be randomized.
>
>
>
> Jeremy Abbott
> jkbullfrog@comcast.net
>
Make your script echo the randomly selected color on stdout, and
surround it with back-quotes, like so:
aterm -tr -tint `random_color.sh` -trsb -rv -geometry 179x33 --font4
HTH,
Conway S. Smith
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-19 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-18 13:48 aterm pseudo transparancy tint Jeremy Abbott
2005-01-18 14:01 ` Jeremy Abbott
2005-01-19 15:44 ` Conway S. Smith [this message]
2005-01-19 10:33 ` Jeremy Abbott
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