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From: envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Setting colours through xrdb
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Date: 19 Sep 90 16:15:23 GMT
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In article <1990Sep19.141423.26912@funet.fi>, shmulevi@haapana.tut.fi
(Shmulevich Ilya) writes:
|> 
|> I tried setting colours using xrdb. In particular, I tried setting colours
for
|> xclock. I tried certain statements like xclock*Border: red    for example.
|> But it did not work. Also, I tried xclock*Foreground, but surprisingly -
|> it worked! *border also did not work. So, what I am trying to say is
|> that I can't figure out what the pattern is for defining colours. Some
|> work and some don't. How come?

Usually the window manager has the last say about the color of window 
borders.  See the man page for your particular window manager to find out
if you can change border colors of certain windows.

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Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.