[Xmonad] border colours

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Sun Jun 3 21:18:03 EDT 2007


xmonad:
> I note that normalBorderColor is a grey, and focusedBorderColor is
> red.  I don't find these particularly distinguishable.
> 
> Likely that's because I'm in the 10% or so of men who have red-green
> colour blindness (I believe it's normally the red receptor that's
> missing).
> 
> Not a big deal, since this is easily changed.  But maybe there's some
> alternative that would be acceptable to almost everyone?  I find
> 
> focusedBorderColor = "#ff00ff"
> 
> to be nicely visible.  Maybe it's too obvious?

I think this is an interesting issue. Magenta seems a bit horrible
though :-)  Perhaps we can just suggest some higher visibility settings
on the web page?

-- Don


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