Changing colors

Setting colors from the command line

You can specify colors for different elements of a client's display on the command line. If you specify a color resource from the command line, however, the color is only set for the current client session. Subsequent sessions return to the default color specification for the client.

NOTE: If you are using scosession and you end your Graphical Environment session with a client that was run from the command line still open on the display, the client is restored when you resume your session. Any command line options that were used to define the client are also restored. In this way, command line options can define client behavior on a more permanent basis.

To set different color characteristics for a client from the command line, open a scoterm window and use one of the following command line options:

the -xrm option sets an actual color resource

client -xrm 'client*resource_name: color' &
the -bg and/or -fg options sets specific background and foreground colors

client -bg color -fg color &