NAME

       xcolmix - an RGB colour mixer

SYNOPSIS

       xcolmix  [-display  host:dpy]  [-name appname] [-visual class] [-depth d] [-private] [-shared] [-stdcmap]
       [-debug d] [-sync] rgb-database-file

       The  rgb-database-file  is  the  file  which  holds  the  X-windows  colour  definitions,  when   absent:
       /etc/X11/rgb.txt is used.

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly the xcolmix, command.  This manual page was written for the Debian
       GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       xcolmix is a colour mixer that enables you to mix your own colours in order  to  determine  three  values
       (the  R/G/B  code,  or  red-green-blue  mix)  of a colour. You can use those colours to, e.g., define the
       foreground or background of X applications which support it. Furthermore, xcolmix lets you  retrieve  RGB
       values from the X system's database of `predefined' colours.

       xcolmix  is  non  longer  actively  maintained  upstream.  If you would like to take it over, talk to the
       author: Karel Kubat <karel@icce.rug.nl>.

OPTIONS

       xcolmix is built with the XForms Graphical User Interface Toolkit for X, and hence supports a  number  of
       flags which are interpreted by XForms.  The flags must be stated before any file arguments, and are:

       -display host:dpy
              defines the X display.

       -name appname
              defines the application name (default is xcolmix).

       -visual class
              TrueColor, PseudoColor etc...

       -depth d
              visual depth in bits

       -private
              forces a private colourmap.

       -shared
              forces a shared colourmap.

       -stdcmap
              forces a standard colourmap.

       -debug l
              prints debugging information, l is the level.

       -sync  forces synchronous mode.

USING XCOLMIX

       Xcolmix lets you define a separate background and a foreground colour for a part of the mixer window (the
       logo). Use this logo to, e.g., compare whether a particular  text  colour  looks  good  on  a  particular
       background.

       Use  the  `foreground / background' buttons to select between the foreground or the background. Then, use
       the three silders labelled `red', `green' and `blue' to change the colour.

       The button `lookup' starts a second window, with a  browser  showing  the  system  colour  database.  The
       default  database name is /etc/X11/rgb.txt, though you can overrule this filename with a file argument in
       the command that starts up xcolmix.

AUTHOR

       Karel Kubat <karel@icce.rug.nl>

       This manual page was written by Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system  (but
       may be used by others).

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