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.TH xcolor 1 "24 July 2001"

.IX "xcolor" "" "\f3xcolor\f1(1) \(em display current colors"

.IX "color" "display" "color" "display current colors \(em \f3xcolor\f1(1)" ""

.SH NAME

xcolor \- displays 256 colors in an X window.

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B xcolor

[

.BI \-display " display"

] [

.BI \-geometry " geometry"

] [

.B \-dump

] [

.B \-nobw

] [

.B \-half

] [

.B \-noinst

] [

.B \-iconwin

]

.SH DESCRIPTION

.B xcolor

displays all 256 colors in a window.  When you move the pointer into the

window, installs a colormap containing a hue ramp with constant saturation

and constant brightness, while preserving black and white.

.SH OPTIONS

.TP 5

.BI \-display " connection"

Connect to X server display,

.IR connection.

.TP 5

.BI \-geometry " geomspec"

Set window size and placement to the standard X11 geometry specification,

.IR geomspec.

.TP 5

.B \-dump

Dumps the RGB values of the default colormap to stdout.

.TP 5

.B \-nobw

Don't preserve black and white in the hue ramp.

.TP 5

.B \-half

Create the hue ramp using only the upper half of the colormap.

.TP 5

.B \-noinst

Don't install the hue ramp.

.TP 5

.B \-iconwin

Use as miniature version of the main window as the icon.

.SH AUTHOR

 Patrick J. Naughton ([email protected])