48-bit colours?
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Quite often, especially in X11-related things (X resources, Roxterm themes, etc) I see colours specified as 48-byte numbers: #2e2e34343636
, #cccc00000000
instead of the usual 24-bit #2e3436
and #cc0000
. What are the extra bits used for?
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