XCOLMIX(1)						      General Commands Manual							XCOLMIX(1)

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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