Re: Naming new GUI colors?

[Giacomo Boffi]

Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:

> Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> is there a way to name new GUI colors in Emacs, and get them listed in
>> `list-color-display'? Something like this:
>>
>> (set-named-color "army green" "#4B5320")
>>
>> ELisp reference only talks about tty.
>>
>
> I don't believe so. The colour names are derived from the rgb.txt
> file (normally in the /etc/X11 directory on most Linux systems. You
> could possibly add your own colour names to this file, but it is
> prtty extensive already.

X built with default options from recent (4 or 5 years) reference only
a builtin, as at compile time, rgb database

afaict, no major linux distributions change this particular default (i
tried to change debian mantainers opinion on this respect, but failed)

ciao
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