On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:22:20PM +0200, fvwm wrote:
> I'm still loking for a reliable way to get a good contrast between
> text and a random background picture.  The best I've come up with
> yet is:
> 
>   colorset 27 transparent, fg white, fgsh black
>   menustyle * menucolorset 27
>   menustyle * font "Shadow=1 n s e w nw ne sw se:lucidasanstypewriter-14"
> 
> A black halo is drawn around the the white text.  But the halo is
> still too thin to give a good contrast.  If it were possible to
> extend the halo to a size of 2 it would be much more readable.
[snip]

I have implemented this.  Try the following with a colourful
background image:

  colorset 27 transparent, fg white, fgsh black
  menustyle * menucolorset 27
  menustyle * font "Shadow=3 c:lucidasanstypewriter-14"

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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