Re: aterm pseudo transparancy tint

Conway S. Smith
2005-01-19T15:44:09Z

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Jeremy Abbott wrote:
> Jeremy Abbott 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:
>>
>>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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