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				X C O L M I X

			  a color mixer for X-windows

			Karel Kubat (karel@icce.rug.nl)
			
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Introduction

    Xcolmix is a color mixer, that enables you to mix your own colors in order
    to determine three values (the R/G/B code, or red-green-blue mix) of a
    color. You can use those colors to, e.g., define the foreground or
    background of X applications which support it. Furthermore, xcolmix lets
    you retrieve RGB values from the X system's database of `predefined'
    colors.


Obtaining xcolmix

    You can ftp the xcolmix package from the site ftp.icce.rug.nl, directory
    /pub/unix, file xcolmix-X.YY.tar.gz, where X.YY stands for a version
    number, e.g., 1.00. The archive extracts using tar and spills into a
    subdirectory xcolmix. It is suggested that you extract the archive in a
    `sources' subdirectory, say /usr/local/src:

	cd /usr/local/src
	tar xvzf ...../xcolmix-X.YY.tar.gz
	cd xcolmix

    If you're on a Linux system using XFree 3, you can use the precompiled
    binary in bin-linux. Just install bin-linux/xcolmix into one of your
    program directories and you're all set to go.

    If you wish to compile xcolmix anew, first get the XForms library and
    headers. See the Makefile in the src subdirectory, extracted from the
    archive. Then, edit the Makefile following the directions stated therein
    and `make install'.


Using xcolmix

    Xcolmix lets you define a separate background and a foreground color for a
    part of the mixer window (the logo). Use this logo to, e.g., compare
    whether a particular text color looks good on a particular background.

    Use the `F/G' switch to switch between defining the foreground or
    background. Then, use the three silders labelled `red', `green' and `blue'
    to change the color.

    The button `lookup' starts a second window, with a browser showing the
    system color database. The default database name is /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt,
    though you can overrule this filename with a file argument in the command
    that starts up xcolmix.


Copyright

    I reserve the copyright to xcolmix. If you have useful additions, please
    mail me with your requests or source diffs and let me make a new
    distribution. Don't hack the sources and redistribute your own: I hate
    encountering `my' programs with a version number that I don't even know
    of. However, you are permitted to distribute xcolmix, provided that you
    (a) distribute it with the full sources, and (b) that you leave this
    documentation and copyright notice intact.

    Copyright policy:
	MegaHard (who wants a Microsoft?)
	PostcardWare (send me a postcard from abroad if you like it)
	but really: GPL, see the file COPYING.