Notice: Version 1.1a is only a bugfix release. There are no new features in it. However it fixes a few bugs. It should work now on most machines were it did segfault or core dump before. This program is dedicated to all X11-users that don't use english as their native tongue. Actually it was started coz' I was unable to imagine what a color like goldenrod would look like. Based on the Athena Widget Set it builts an RgbText Widget that inherits all capabilities from the AsciiTextWidget, but interprets each line as line out of /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt aka as a color nickname and an RGB specification. Functionality to display these values in different color formats together with a color probe tile and hooks to "grab" colors from the screen and search similar colors is provided. xcolorsel is a X-Utility based on this widget that allows you to display such files ( /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt by default ) together with tiles showing how the color looks on your screen. Also a programmer may (like with xfontsel) cut the color names/definitions in various formats (Colorformats and formats for resourcefiles or C-sources) und paste them directly in his source codes. xcolorsel has also proven his usefulness for finding nice color sets for setup of colors for my favorite X-tools. Be warned!!! I did this as an exercise to learn Xaw programming. I consider this tool as finished. No further extensions, bug fixes are planned. (But feel free to mail me your comments or suggestions anyway. If serious bugs occur or patches to support your machine are needed send me your patches. If they are context diffs and use some preprocessor defines to select the patches (either self select a symbol name or (better) use one put in by your imake automatically (and please put any #define's in config.h) ). I will put them in and redistribute a newer version, s.t. only one consistent version is floating around in the net. But remember: My priority of this project is low. This program is released under the GNU public license. Please note that this software was developed in ANSI-C (using GNU-cc) under X11R5. It won't compile under "standard" K&R C and I don't know if it will compile under X11R4 or earlier (if your computer vendor can't provide X11R5 and an ANSI-C compiler kick his ass and order real workstations next time ;-)) A port (very simple) to X11R6 was done.. xcolorsel should still compile under X11R5. This program was called xpalette before, however there existed so many xpalette's that I was asked to change it's name. Apart from the port xcolorsel does now work under Xservers with read only colormaps (true color) as well. xcolorsel.tar.gz has already been released on ftp.x.org:contrib and the incoming directories for Linux on sunsite.unc.edu (intended for pub/Linux/X11/xutils) and tsx-11.mit.edu(maybe later in pub/linux/sources/usr.bin.X11). A precompiled binary (libc4.6.25 and Xfree3.1) is included in some distributions.