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 ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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]