On 26 May 2002 17:18:57 +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > I wonder if it's possible to improve the readability of shadow > text a bit. With my default palette (pale blue window titles, > orange title on the focused window, black text), it's quite > difficult to read the title. Two ideas to improve the > situation: > > - Better contrast between shadow and text colours. > Probably won't help much.
Black text is not very good for shadowing, but this depends on font. Try white text with your palettes. It looks very well. Ideally shadow should enable more text colors to be readable on any bg. I got very good results without changing the default fgsh calculations with both black text and white text in your theme. Try: Style * Font "shadowsize=3:xft:Luxi Sherif:Bold:size=13" Shadow size 2 is good too (and shadow size 1 with white). > - Offset the shadow text by another pixel > E.g. > > X X > X X > XX . > X .X . > X .X > . . > . . > > Instead of > > X X > X X . > XX . > X .X > X . X > . . Hmm, I though this will be even more ugly, but I am not sure now. I patched the source (currently lines 1009-1010 in Flocale.c) and offset 2 looks good with bold or Xft fonts, but not with others. So, probably we may add a third argument to shadow: shadow=size[,directions[,offset]] I also want to see whether shadow=1,br+b is ugly or not. Something like: X X .X X.. .XX.. X..X X.. .X .. .. Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
