[xmonad] colourful xterms

[Sergey Manucharian]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:55:36 -0400
Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sure, but then he'd need to scale it. $RANDOM outputs between 0 and
> 32767, not 0-100.  
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#!/bin/bash
R_BASE=32768
G_BASE=32768
B_BASE=32768

`printf "xterm -bg rgb:%04x/%04x/%04x\n" $(($R_BASE+$RANDOM))
$(($G_BASE+$RANDOM)) $(($B_BASE+$RANDOM))`
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(the last expression must be on the single line, of course)

Cheers,
Sergey