Re: changing colors of menus to match wmaker

[Fred Kiefer]

Chris Conn wrote:
> I've just installed GWorkspace and Affiche on my Slackware
> Linux box, have them running and I'm wondering if there is
> a way to change the pull-down menus to match the menu colors 
> I'm using in WindowMaker, haven't seen anything in the docs
> or on the web about this. Thanks for any advice,

In GNUstep the colours used for the menu come from the system colour 
list. This is a binary file System.clr situated in 
~/GNUstep/Library/Colors. The colours you are interested in are 
selectedMenuItemColor, selectedMenuItemTextColor, 
controlBackgroundColor, controlTextColor. As the file is binary the best 
way to change the colours is currently (until preferences comes with a 
way to change them or we add this to the normal Color picker) to write a 
short helper tool that creates a new colour list. If you have trouble 
with that, ask again and I might take the time to write a few examples.