XSTDCMAP(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so the name is xstdcmap 🌈, and it's the X standard colormap utility. this bestie is literally the manual page for X standard colormap stuff, which is giving main character energy ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

xstdcmap [-all] [-best] [-blue] [-default] [-delete map] [-display dpy]
[-gray] [-green] [-help] [-red] [-verbose] [-version]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so xstdcmap lets you pick and choose which standard colormap properties you want to define 💅 It's meant to run from your X startup script so it can set up those standard colormap definitions. The whole point is to help clients share colormap resources, which are scarce, so nobody's fighting over them 🫶 Whenever it's possible, colormaps get created with read-only allocations. the way that's so responsible 😭

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

these are the options you can use with xstdcmap 🍓

• -all — this one is the big boss 👑 It defines all six standard colormap properties on each screen of the display. not every screen can handle visuals where all six make sense, so xstdcmap figures out the best allocations and visuals for each screen's colormap properties on its own. anything that was already there gets replaced, so no cap, it's a fresh start 🧚
• -best — defines the RGB_BEST_MAP 💜
• -blue — defines the RGB_BLUE_MAP 💙
• -default — defines the RGB_DEFAULT_MAP ✨
• -delete map — removes a specific standard colormap property, or all of them if you're feeling dramatic 💀 The map you give it has to be one of: default, best, red, green, blue, gray, or all.
• -display dpy — picks the host and display you want to use. for more on that, check out X(7) 🌈
• -gray — defines the RGB_GRAY_MAP 🩶
• -green — defines the RGB_GREEN_MAP 💚
• -help — prints a quick rundown of the command line arguments to standard error 🙈 It shows up whenever you give xstdcmap an argument it doesn't recognize, so you'll never be lost.
• -red — defines the RGB_RED_MAP ❤️
• -verbose — makes xstdcmap narrate what it's doing 🎙️ It logs info while it parses your input and defines the standard colormap properties. very chatty, very helpful 🫶
• -version — prints the version and then exits 🦋

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

• DISPLAY — this is where xstdcmap gets the default host and display number 💖

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• X(7)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Donna Converse, MIT X Consortium 🎀

ok bestie, that's the whole thing 💅 it's from X Version 11, the tool is xstdcmap 1.0.5, and the page is XSTDCMAP(1) 🌸 slay forever 🫶✨