{"id":385,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=385"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"change-title-tab-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Change title tab colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some say that Be&#8217;s bright yellow title tabs are one of the interface&#8217;s most distinctive features. If you&#8217;re not a big fan of yellow, download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bebits.com\/app\/431\">WindowShade<\/a>. This utility will let you change the colors of your BeOS title tabs and window borders.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/412.windowshade.png\" width=544 height=139 alt=\"412.windowshade.png\"><br \/>\n WindowShade is a command-line utility which only accepts hexadecimal parameters for specifying colors. To make life easier, download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bebits.com\/app\/998\">WSFrontEnd<\/a>, which is a graphical front-end to WindowShade&#8217;s functionality.<br \/>\nPlace the WindowShade folder wherever you like, then drop WSFrontEnd into the same folder. Double-click WSFrontEnd and set the colors however you like. When you close WSFrontEnd, it will create a shell script called &#8222;setcolors&#8220; in the same folder.<br \/>\nNow all you have to do is specify the path to setcolors in your UserBootscript, so the color changes are restored each time you boot BeOS. Here&#8217;s mine:<\/p>\n<pre>\n\/boot\/apps\/utils\/WindowShade\/setcolors &amp; <\/pre>\n<p>For reference, the default tab colors in BeOS are:<br \/>\nyellow: 255,203,0<br \/>\ngrey:  219,219,219<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some say that Be&#8217;s bright yellow title tabs are one of the interface&#8217;s most distinctive features. If you&#8217;re not a big fan of yellow, download WindowShade. This utility will let you change the colors of your BeOS title tabs and window borders. WindowShade is a command-line utility which only accepts hexadecimal parameters for specifying colors. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}