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From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Selected window color
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.085731@osf.org>
Date: 28 Aug 90 12:57:31 GMT
References: <14679@wpi.wpi.edu>
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Reply-To: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
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In article <14679@wpi.wpi.edu>, macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg) writes:
|> In using motif, I see around me people have many differnt colors,
backgrounds,
|> and characteristics of their own setup. BUT, the selected window, or
the
|> active window, is always highlighed as an aqua-green color... 

You need to change an mwm resource.  You can add the following to your
.Xdefaults:

Mwm*activeBackground:		puce

I also use:

Mwm*title*activeBackground:	red3
Mwm*title*activeForeground:	white

just to drive the point home.

Incidentally, I have my own app-defaults directory which is named in
the environment variable XAPPLRESDIR, and the above are in the file
Mwm.  It's a recommended technique to avoid overloading your
.Xdefaults (actually, at R4, use of XUSERFILESEARCHPATH is more
recommended). 
-- 
David Brooks				dbrooks@osf.org
Systems Engineering, OSF		uunet!osf.org!dbrooks