Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!dmaustin From: dmaustin@vivid.sun.com (Darren Austin - I will not instigate revolution) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: OpenLook window border colours Message-ID: Date: 12 Nov 90 22:50:38 GMT References: <8@bain3.UUCP> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 32 In-reply-to: keith@bain3.UUCP's message of 12 Nov 90 01:45:55 GMT In article <8@bain3.UUCP> keith@bain3.UUCP (Keith Brinck) writes: Does anyone know if there's a way to set the colour of the entire window border on an individual window basis? For example, under SunView one can start a shelltool with a red border using shelltool -Wf 255 0 0 However the same command under OpenLook sets the text to red and doesn't affect the border at all. Placing 'OpenWindows.WindowColor: red' in my .Xdefaults file makes all window borders red. Hence I would have thought that shelltool -default OpenWindows.WindowColor red would set the border colour on an individual window, but this only sets the colour of the scroll bar of the new window. The reason for this is that the "frame border" is actually being painted by the window manager (olwm), which doesn't see this command line option. I don't believe that it is possible to change the border color of individual windows with olwm. -Darren -- Darren Austin | Actually, it's a buck and a quarter Windows and Graphics Software | staff, but I'm not going to tell Sun Microsystems, Mountain View | *him* that. dmaustin@sun.com |