From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Abbott Subject: Re: aterm pseudo transparancy tint Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:33:40 +0000 Message-ID: <41EE3784.7060506@comcast.net> References: <41ED13B5.8000903@comcast.net> <41ED16B9.3080206@comcast.net> <41EE8049.9090507@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <41EE8049.9090507@comcast.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Conway S. Smith" , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Conway S. Smith wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >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 >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > >iD8DBQFB7oBFGL3AU+cCPDERAoQ2AKCd5iI4/NgSYHMoasE+nZ32Nwj5twCePnYx >gUzIbyS8jcuv2+W0O5qUA08= >=RD3q >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > > Thanks, I believe that will do the trick. Jeremy Abbott jkbullfrog@comcast.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs