NAME

xcolors - X window system color database display

SYNOPSIS

xcolors [ option ] ... 

DESCRIPTION

xcolors displays the colors defined in X window system color database.  xcolors creates a window in which each color in the database is displayed along with its name and hexadecimal rgb representation. The colors are roughly sorted by color type. The mouse is used to change the colors of the text, border and background by placing the cursor on the color desired and clicking the left, middle or right button. 

xcolors understands the following options:

−bd color
Specify the border color; black is the default.

−bg color
Specify the background color; black is the default.

−bw pixels
Specify the width in pixels of the border around the xcolors window. The default value is 3 pixels. 

−fg color
Specify the text color; white is the default.

−fn fontname
The text will be displayed in the specified font (if none is specified, this defaults to 6x10).

=geometry
The xcolors window is created with the specified size and location determined by the supplied geometry specification. See X(1) for a full explanation. 

[host]:[display]
Normally, xcolors gets the host and display number to use from the environment variable “DISPLAY”.  Either or both can be specified with this option.  host specifies which machine to create the xcolors window on, and display specifies the display number.  For example, “hoser:0” creates an xcolors on display 0 on machine hoser. Either value can be defaulted by omission but “:” is necessary to specify one or both. 

X DEFAULTS

Background
Set the background color.

BodyFont
Set the text font.

Highlight
Set the text color.

BorderWidth
Set the border width.

BorderColor
Set the border color.

ENVIRONMENT

DISPLAY - to get the default host and display number. 

FILES

/usr/lib/rgb.txt

SEE ALSO

X(1), xwm(1), X(8C)

DIAGNOSTICS

Unable to open display or create window.  Unable to query window for dimensions. Various X errors. 

RESTRICTIONS

xcolors will fail if there are fewer colors available than there are color entries in the database. 

AUTHOR

John Tonry