xcolorize

[machinebacon]

If you want to create xcolors from scratch, this script might help. You need yad (it's in our repos) because gcolor2's color picker does not send the selected color to stdout.

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#!/bin/bash
# loops through color0-15 and opens color picker dialog
# depends on: yad

echo "Creating tempfile"
tmpfile=~/xcol.$$

declare -a cn1=(black red green yellow blue magenta cyan white bold_black bold_red bold_green bold_yellow bold_blue bold_magenta bold_cyan bold_white)

echo "Pick background color"
printf "*background: " >> $tmpfile
yad --color --title "Background color selection" >> $tmpfile
echo "Pick foreground color"
printf "*foreground: " >> $tmpfile
yad --color --title "Foreground color selection" >> $tmpfile

for n in {0..15}; do
	echo "Pick color $n for ${cn1[$n]}"
	printf "*color$n: " >> $tmpfile
	yad --color --title "Color selection for ${cn1[$n]}" >> $tmpfile
done

echo "Rename $tmpfile and merge it in ~/.Xresources"
exit 0

The script first asks you for the background and foreground colors, then goes through the normal and bold variants from black to white, each time opening the color picker tool. This is helpful if you want to stay close to the standard colors, rather than the automatized output of the paletterX tool.

[rhowaldt]

^ cool :)

[alexender]

yad --color --title "Background color selection" >> $tmpfile..........!

[DebianJoe]

Welcome, Alexender, to the BBQ. Please head over to /dev/null and make a short introduction, as it's much easier to take bash-script masters seriously once we get to know you. :)

[machinebacon]

I bet a warm PBR that alexender is a bot. (notepad/9wm/bash/xterm/what? are the default profile settings)