dtdpfile(special file)

NAME
dtdpfile — format and location of desktop palette files

SYNOPSIS

#color 1 background RBG data
#color 2 background RBG data
#color 3 background RBG data
#color 4 background RBG data
#color 5 background RBG data
#color 6 background RBG data
#color 7 background RBG data
#color 7 background RBG data

DESCRIPTION

A palette is a color scheme used to color a CDE workspace and the CDE components.

A palette file provides the set of eight background colors that make up a color palette.

A variety of palettes are provided with the CDE. As part of the default palette set there are several palettes designed specifically to work well on monochrome and gray scale displays.

The Style Manager is the desktop graphical user interface tool which is used to add, delete, or modify a color palette. The end user should never need to act on the palette file directly.

All palette files have a .dp suffix. The file contents are the eight colors of the palette, specified as RGB values in hexadecimal.

The palette files provided with the system are located in the directory /usr/dt/palettes/C.

User specific palette files are located in HOME/.dt/palettes.

The Style Manager resource paletteDirectories can be used to specify additional directories where palettes are located.

When a user creates a new palette, it is located in HOME/.dt/palettes. System palettes that the user has modified are also located in this directory. When a user deletes a palette, that palette is placed in the HOME/.dt/palettes directory with a ~ prefix. If it was a user specified palette, the original file is removed. System palettes are never removed. If the user has a ~ copy of a system palette, that palette will not appear in the list of available palettes in the Style Manager.

RETURN VALUE

None.

EXAMPLES

The following is an example of a palette file named Julie.dp:

#a200e500c600
#3ffc93008d77
#2d2d4e4e7600
#78008900a500
#63ea7e189500
#3ec670ec8a00
#3d157d008400
#61006d098e00

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

SEE ALSO

dtsession(1), dtstyle(1).