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Documentation / Contents - Color Schemes

• Overview of Colour Schemes
  • Where the Controls Are
  • Fonts Are Separate
  • What Ships
• Choosing a Scheme
  • The Standalone Color Scheme Window
  • What the List Shows
  • The Lock, and Why Names Match
  • If Nothing Changes
• The Roles
  • Ground and Chrome
  • Selection
  • Text and Wells
  • Controls
  • Window Manager
  • Content Accents
  • Metrics
  • The Nine Font Roles
  • What Happens to a Role You Leave Out
• Scheme Files
  • The File
  • Colour Values
  • Where Schemes Are Found
  • Two Names
  • What Ships
  • Writing Your Own
• The Scheme Daemon
  • What It Does
  • Two Kinds of Application
  • The Order of the Resource Block
  • Asking It What It Is Doing
  • Making It Change
  • Signals
  • If Something Wipes the Colours
• Command Line
  • The Daemon
  • The Panel
  • Environment Variables
  • The Background Configuration
• Schemes and the Rest of the Desktop
  • Fonts
  • Wallpaper
  • The Window Manager
  • Bevels

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• Copyright Information

Command Line

The Daemon

cyschemed SCHEME          serve this scheme; a name or a path
cyschemed --apply NAME    ask a running daemon to switch
cyschemed --list          the installed scheme names
cyschemed --status        the owner, scheme and serial; non-zero if none
cyschemed --dry-run       print the merged resource text, write nothing
cyschemed --once          apply once and exit
cyschemed --replace       take the selection from a running daemon
cyschemed --remove        strip our resource block and exit

The font half rides on the same daemon:

cyschemed --font NAME         which font scheme to serve
cyschemed --apply-font NAME   switch fonts only
cyschemed --list-fonts        the installed font schemes
cyschemed --no-font           serve no font scheme at all

Colour and font are independent. Switching one leaves the other be.

If no scheme is named, the default is taken from CY_SCHEME, then CYWM_SCHEME, then icy-blue-mountains.

--once leaves the resource block behind naming a daemon that is no longer running. Use --remove afterwards if that matters.

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--apply of a relative path is passed to the daemon as written, and the daemon's working directory is whatever started it. Give it a bare scheme name or an absolute path.

The Panel

cywall                      Background and Color Scheme together
cywall --canonical=scheme   the Color Scheme window alone
cywall --canonical=wall     the Background window alone
cywall --canonical          the same as --canonical=wall
cywall --paths              where the catalog is searched, and what is found
cywall --selftest           the built-in checks
cywall --decode FILE        decode an image and report its size

Keys

Neither program defines an accelerator or a mnemonic. In the panel, what the toolkit gives is what there is: Tab moves the focus, and the arrow keys work in the scheme list.

Environment Variables

CY_SCHEME        the default colour scheme name
CYWM_SCHEME      a fallback for the same
CY_FONT_SCHEME   the default font scheme name
CY_SCHEME_ROOT   override where colour schemes are looked for
CY_FONT_ROOT     override where font schemes are looked for
CY_SHARE         override the shipped asset root
CYWALL_CONF      the background panel's configuration file

The Background Configuration

~/.cyanotype/cywall.conf

mode        picture or pattern
picture     the wallpaper file, when mode is picture
pattern     the pattern name, when mode is pattern
placement   fill, stretch, scale, center or tile

This file is shared with the file manager, which draws the background.

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• Schemes and the Rest of the Desktop
• Overview of Colour Schemes