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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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[SOLVED] Weird RGB colors

Hello... making an Openbox theme, based on Artwiz-boxed, which comes with Openbox. There are some odd RGB values, though. At first I thought they were hex, but converting them to decimal yields very different colors.
For example, menu.items.text.color: rgb:90/a0/b0

Anyone want to clue me in? Such a thing is hard to Google for.

Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-08-21 00:58:08)

thisoldman

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Registered: 2009-04-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Weird RGB colors

It's a blue gray color, R=144 G=160 B=176, or H=210 S=18 V=69.  Probably meant for text on a dark background.  The two styles for expressing rgb colors in openbox themes are rr/gg/bb or #rrggbb.  Either one works.  I haven't tried mixing the two styles but I would guess that works too.

Try gcolor2. Its a good, small tool for quickly grabbing screen colors, and for displaying, adjusting and translating color codes. 

A fun site to use for auto-generated color themes is Color Scheme Designer. Click on the "Show Tooltips" under "About & Help" and you'll quickly learn to navigate.  Or just start clicking on different things and figure it out yourself. If I can do it, it's not hard to do.

Also see the Openbox Help:Themes page.

Last edited by thisoldman (2009-08-21 00:25:55)

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: [SOLVED] Weird RGB colors

Ahh, there's my problem. I'm an idiot.
I saw "rgb:/90/a0/b0" and thought only the last two were hex, so I converted and got 90/160/176, which is a red color and looked totally off. I now see that the 90 was hex too
Apologies. Thread solved.

EDIT: The above makes no sense, but don't mind me I fixed the problem.

Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-08-21 00:57:59)