# Colorsets

Colorsets are a powerful method to control colors. Colorsets create appearance resources that are shared by fvwm and its modules. When a colorset is modified all parts of fvwm react to that change. A colorset includes a foreground color, background color, shadow and highlight color (often based on the background color), background face (this includes images and all kinds of gradients). There is a way to render background face and specify other color operations.

In the 2.4.x versions a special module was introduced to manage colorsets. Starting with the 2.5.x beta version, the functionality was moved to the core fvwm, so this module became obsolete. In 2.6.7 the module was removed.

The old syntax:

     : *
    *:  0 fg black, bg rgb:b4/aa/94
    *:  1 fg black, bg rgb:a1/b2/c8

corresponds to the new syntax:

     0 fg black, bg rgb:b4/aa/94
     1 fg black, bg rgb:a1/b2/c8