13. Colors

All text printed by stumpwm is run through a coloring engine before being displayed. All color commands start with a ‘^’ (caret) character and apply to all text after it.

^0-9

A caret followed by a single digit number changes the foreground color to the specified color. A ‘*’ can be used to specify the normal color. See the color listing below.

^0-90-9

A caret followed by two digits sets the foreground and background color. The first digit refers to the foreground color and the second digit to the background color. A ‘*’ can be used in place of either digit to specify the normal color. See the color listing below.

^B

Turn on bright colors.

^b

Turn off bright colors.

^n

Use the normal background and foreground color.

^R

Reverse the foreground and background colors.

^r

Turn off reverse colors.

^[

Push the current colors onto the color stack. The current colors remain unchanged.

^]

Pop the colors off the color stack.

^^

Print a regular caret.

The default colors are made to resemble the 16 VGA colors and are:

0 black

1 red

2 green

3 yellow

4 blue

5 magenta

6 cyan

7 white

There are only 8 colors by default but 10 available digits. The last two digits are left up to the user. Behind The Scenes Look At Colors for information on customizing colors.

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