Re: understanding rgb:a0/a0/a0 color code format

Frank McCormick <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.icewm.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:46:51 -0500
Johnny <[email protected]> wrote:

> Frank McCormick wrote:
> > On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:36:19 -0500
> > Johnny<[email protected]>  wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> Hi
> >> I am trying to understand how to find the color code format for
> >> rgb:a0/a0/a0 I have seen this in flubox themes and others, I know
> >> that #000000 is black I have the color2, xcolmix, xcolorsel
> >> installed
> >>
> >
> >    I don't know what color2 is but am sure the program gcolor2 is
> > in the Lenny repositories...it'll solve your problem.
> >
> >    
> I do have gcolor2 installed i just forgot to add g, hands were type 
> faster that I was thinking.
> What I am not understanding is the rgb:a0/a0/a0 what is the a's and
> how do you decode that.
> Been looking at some of the icewm themes and have seen that color
> code format how do you get the color format for that. I understand
> #000000 this color code format but not rgb:a0/a0/a0


  Just different ways of showing the same thing..i.e. rgb:a0/a0/a0 = #a0a0a0.
  rgb=red/green/blue

  Dunno why they do this. I usually mod all my themes to use the #a0a0a0 format.


-- 
Frank<[email protected]>

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