XCOLMIX(1)

✨ XCOLMIX(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for xcolmix, and lemme tell you, this little diva is a whole vibe 💅

🎀 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

so the rgb-database-file is the file that's holding all your X-windows colour definitions, and when it's not there, it just falls back to /etc/X11/rgb.txt. iconic behaviour honestly 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this manual page is the quick little rundown of the xcolmix command, and it was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because — plot twist — the original program literally doesn't have a manual page. not me being the one to write it 😭

xcolmix is a colour mixer, and what it does is let you mix your own colours so you can figure out three values (the R/G/B code, aka the red-green-blue mix) of a colour. you can take those colours and, like, define the foreground or the background of X applications that support it. and as if that wasn't enough, xcolmix also lets you retrieve RGB values straight out of the X system's database of predefined colours. slay ✨

and now the sad part: xcolmix is no longer actively maintained upstream 😭 if you wanna take it over, go talk to the author: Karel Kubat <karel@icce.rug.nl>. main character energy, someone adopt this app fr fr

💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay so xcolmix is built with the XForms Graphical User Interface Toolkit for X, which means it supports a whole bunch of flags that XForms itself interprets. and important: these flags have to be stated before any file arguments. no skipping the line, bestie. here they are:

• -display host:dpy — defines the X display. that's the whole job, that's the gig 🖥️
• -name appname — defines the application name (the 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, and l is the level. (heads up, the synopsis calls it d, the options list calls it l, that's just how it is 💀)
• -sync — forces synchronous mode.

🌸 USING XCOLMIX 🌸

Xcolmix lets you define a separate background and a separate foreground</color>... wait no, let me not fumble this — a separate background colour and a separate foreground colour for one part of the mixer window (the logo 🎀). use that logo to, like, compare whether a particular text colour looks good on a particular background. vibe check, but for colours.

use the foreground / background buttons to pick between the foreground and the background. then use the three sliders labelled red, green and blue to change the colour. three sliders, infinite lewks 💅

and the lookup button? it opens a second window with a browser showing the system colour database. the default database name is /etc/X11/rgb.txt, though you can totally overrule that filename by passing a file argument in the command that starts up xcolmix. you're in charge, periodt 👑

👑 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 it may be used by others 🫶).

okay that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💖 this was XCOLMIX(1) from the General Commands Manual, living its best life over in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. go mix something gorgeous, ily, bye 🦋✨