Schemes and the Rest of the Desktop

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

Schemes and the Rest of the Desktop

Fonts

Fonts are a separate scheme, edited in a separate panel, served on the same daemon. Any font scheme mixes with any colour scheme, and switching one leaves the other exactly as it was.

The nine font names are also legal inside a colour scheme file, and some shipped schemes still carry them. Those are legacy bindings; the font scheme outranks them.

cyhelp --book Fonts --topic overview

Wallpaper

The Background half of the same panel chooses the picture or pattern on the root window. Because "Lock scheme to wallpaper" is on by default, choosing a picture normally chooses a scheme too. See Choosing a Scheme.

The Background half has its own book, which covers the picture and pattern lists, the placement choices, and the scheme column's controls:

cyhelp --book Background --topic overview

The Window Manager

Four roles colour the window frames: WMBackground, WMForeground, WMActiveBackground and WMActiveForeground. The window manager follows the scheme live, like the rest of Blueprint's own programs.

cyhelp --book WindowManager --topic overview

Bevels

BevelScale is a scheme setting, not a separate preference. A scheme can make every bevel on the desktop heavier or lighter without changing one colour. See The Roles.

The Other Books

cyhelp --book Fonts --topic overview          typefaces
cyhelp --book Sounds --topic overview         desktop sounds
cyhelp --book Audio --topic overview          the audio mixer
cyhelp --book Mouse --topic overview          pointer and cursor
cyhelp --book Localization --topic overview   location and time
cyhelp --book WindowManager --topic overview  windows and desks
cyhelp --book Blueprint --topic overview      the desktop

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• Overview of Colour Schemes
• The Roles