keith@bain3.UUCP (Keith Brinck) (11/12/90)
Does anyone know if there's a way to set the colour of the entire window border on an individual window basis? For eaxmple, 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. Any input would be welcome. -- Keith Brinck ACSnet: keith@bain3.oz.au Bain Capital Markets Ltd Fax : (61-2)258-1128 225 George St, Sydney 2000, Australia.
dmaustin@vivid.sun.com (Darren Austin - I will not instigate revolution) (11/13/90)
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
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