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| General |
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In the looks directory you will find some look files, nothing else. I have picked one to show up some possibilities. I know there are even more, but I only wanted that the viewer see how to do it. If you change your look file, you might have to change your feel file also. Some changes will affect the behaviour of AS in a way, that you have to change the feel file accordingly. Edit the look file you want to use, to change the colors, buttons, window-buttons and so on. The IMO best way to learn is to copy one file edit one entry and look what is changing, then edit the next entry. You always have to choose Quit - Update look (or Decorations - Update look) from the startmenu, so that the look you want is used next time you start AS. It is then written to ~/G/L/A/non-configurable/0_look.XXbpp if you use one look for all desks. |
| The config file |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ########################################################################## # Look by Guylhem and me. Based on a look file of Guylhem. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Colors : # # 0) Standard window colors # HiForeColor DarkBlue # The foreground color of the highlighted window StdForeColor Grey60 # The foreground color of any other window, when not highlighted or sticky StickyForeColor Black # The foreground color of a sticky window MenuForeColor White # The foreground color of the (root)menu HiBackColor #000044 # The background color of the highlighted window StdBackColor #bfbfbf StickyBackColor #004400 MenuBackColor DarkBlue #MenuStippleColor Grey # # 2) Textures : avoid them on 8bpp ! # # 0 - No texture # 1 - Wharf-style gradient ^- # 2 - Horizontal one way gradient ¯-_ # 3 - Horizontal from top/bottom to center =-= # 4 - Vertical one way gradient from left to right ||| | | | | # 5 - Vertical from left/right to center >>>>>><<<<<< # 128 - User defined pixmap # # 2-1) Texture types # # title unfocused sticky menutitle menu TextureTypes 128 128 128 128 128 # I´ve got own pixmaps on every window and the menu. title is the
# highlighted window, unfocused the others, sticky the sticky ones
# menutitle the titlebar of the menu and menu the menu itself. ButtonTextureType 128 # Texture type on iconized windows # # 2-2) Maximum colors allowed # # Number of colors : default is 10 on 8bpp screens, 32 on 16 bpp and 128 on > #TextureMaxColors 128 128 128 128 128 #ButtonMaxColors 128 # If you use gradients uncomment the MaxColors lines # # 2-3) Now the pixmap # TitlePixmap menue2window.xpm STitlePixmap menuestickwindow.xpm UTitlePixmap menue1window.xpm ButtonPixmap blueplanet.xpm MTitlePixmap menue2.xpm MenuPixmap menue2.xpm # This are the pixmaps I use, you have to define them. In 1.4.4 you maybe
# have to add the path to the pixmaps! # # 2-4) Or the gradients (can't choose both, except for TextGradientColor) # #TitleTextureColor #55871a178b85 #69a35954cdd2 #UTitleTextureColor #606261 #a0a2a1 #TextGradientColor #FFFF00 #FF0000 #STitleTextureColor #301030 #803080 #MTitleTextureColor #55871a178b85 #69a35954cdd2 #MenuTextureColor #606060 #d0d0d0 #ButtonTextureColor #c2d0c2d0c2d0 #6b856b856b85 #ButtonBgColor #bfbfbf # Here you can define two colors that will build the gradient style. # 2-5) Various texturing options # # Textures/Pixmaps on windows lowbar ? TexturedHandle # So enable this if you want the lower frame to appear with pixmap or gradient. # Gradient on windows title ? GradientText # The text on the highlighted window will appear in gradient style.
# Depending on the fore and back colors defined. # Border around iconifyied windows ? ButtonNoBorder # Colored border around the iconized windows? #DrawMenuBorders 0 # This doesn´t work yet. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Texts # Font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-* WindowFont -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* IconFont -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-8-*-*-*-*-*-*-* #IconBox 54 21 -2 -2 IconBox 69 -64 -1 -1 # IconBox defines where the buttons of the iconized windows will stay
# on the desktop. The upper one is the position top left, the lower one
# bottom left next to my pager. TitleTextAlign 1 # This defines where the text in the titlebar will allign, 1 is left. #------------------------------------------------------------------------ # TitleButtons : [1] [3] [5] [7] [9] (title) [0] [8] [6] [4] [2] # TitleButton 1 as-switchwindow-a.xpm as-switchwindow-a-pressed.xpm TitleButton 2 as-kill.xpm as-kill-pressed.xpm TitleButton 3 as-menu-a.xpm as-menu-a-pressed.xpm TitleButton 4 as-shade-a.xpm as-shade-a-pressed.xpm TitleButton 6 as-iconize.xpm as-iconize-pressed.xpm #TitleButton 1 1.xpm 1p.xpm #TitleButton 2 2.xpm 2p.xpm #TitleButton 3 3.xpm 3p.xpm #TitleButton 4 4.xpm 4p.xpm #TitleButton 6 5.xpm 5p.xpm # Here you can choose the buttons in the title bar and their position.
# You can change this and/or define own pixmaps. # ########################################################################## -------------------------------------------------------------------------
The best is, when you test the look files that comes with AS and also look into the configuration of them. You then will see what you can do, how it looks and how you can change the look of your own desktop.