Re: aterm pseudo transparancy tint

Jeremy Abbott
2005-01-19T10:33:40Z

Conway S. Smith wrote:

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>>>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:
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>>>aterm -tr -tint blue -trsb -rv -geometry 179x33 --font4
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>>>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.
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>>>Thanks,
>>>Jeremy Abbott
>>>jkbullfrog@comcast.net
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>>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.
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>>Jeremy Abbott
>>jkbullfrog@comcast.net
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>Make your script echo the randomly selected color on stdout, and
>surround it with back-quotes, like so:
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>aterm -tr -tint `random_color.sh` -trsb -rv -geometry 179x33 --font4
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>HTH,
>Conway S. Smith
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Thanks, I believe that will do the trick.