Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ox.com!emory!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!samsung!spool.mu.edu!uunet!ora!bloom-beacon!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: don@atlantis.coral.COM (Don Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Xpostit Color Message-ID: <9106271153.AA05483@atlantis.coral.com> Date: 27 Jun 91 11:53:57 GMT References: <5509@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: The Internet Lines: 51 I tried to mail this directly, but it bounced. Please include your email address with you message. The return path is not always reliable. ) Return-Path: ) Date: 26 Jun 91 14:54:25 GMT ) From: uunet!enterprise.sun.com!greg (Greg George - Sun Project Development Manager - Midwest ) ) Organization: Sun Microsystems Consulting - Detroit ) Subject: Xpostit Color ) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x ) Sender: uunet!expo.lcs.mit.edu!xpert-request ) To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu ) ) Dudes and Dudettes; ) Is there a way to get the notes that xpostit produces ) to be yellow? I have tried the built in hooks through ) .Xdefaults to no avail. I can get the main plaid icon ) to color properly, but not the notes. Does anyone have ) a .Xdefaults entry they can post here that I can put ) into mine?? I am running SunOS 4.1.1 with OpenWindows V2. ) ) Thanks! ) ) greg ) ) Here is what I do. Mwm*postItNote*clientDecoration: none Mwm*postItNote*iconImageBackground: LemonChiffon Mwm*postItNote*iconImageForeground: DarkSlateBlue Mwm*xpostit*clientDecoration: none Mwm*xpostit*iconImageBackground: black Mwm*xpostit*iconImageForeground: red postItNote*background: LemonChiffon postItNote*foreground: DarkSlateBlue xpostit*background: red I believe postItNote*background is the one you are interested in. +---------+ | Coral | |@@@@@*@**| |@@*@@**@@| Don Dewar |*@@**@@@@| Coral Network Corporation, Marlborough, MA |@***@@@@@| Internet: don@coral.com |@@**@@@@@| Phone: (508) 460-6010 |*********| Fax: (508) 481-6258 |Networks | +---------+