-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Abbott wrote: > Jeremy Abbott wrote: > > >>Does anyone know if there is a way to set the tint color of an aterm >>to be random? Right now I am executing the following: >> >>aterm -tr -tint blue -trsb -rv -geometry 179x33 --font4 >> >>I know I can write a script to randomize the color if I need to, I'm >>just not sure how to implement it with the -tint switch. >> >>Thanks, >>Jeremy Abbott >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > It just occured to me that I can do this by writing a script to randomly > choose from a list of aterm calls, rather than just randomizing the tint > color. I can do this if need be, but am still curious if just the tint > color by itself can be randomized. > > > > Jeremy Abbott > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Make your script echo the randomly selected color on stdout, and surround it with back-quotes, like so: aterm -tr -tint `random_color.sh` -trsb -rv -geometry 179x33 --font4 HTH, Conway S. Smith -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB7oBFGL3AU+cCPDERAoQ2AKCd5iI4/NgSYHMoasE+nZ32Nwj5twCePnYx gUzIbyS8jcuv2+W0O5qUA08= =RD3q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
