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Re: gnome-terminal colors
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Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:58:22 GMT
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:46:51 GMT "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote
concerning 'Re: gnome-terminal colors':
Well, I'm not exactly trying to do anything weird, but I would like arbitrary-
colored text to display properly on a white background.  Here's what I'm
doing:

   http://www.lugnet.com/temp/gterm1.gif

weird - I still can't get anything to go wrong with my color
display...  but now I must ask why are you using gnome-term anyhow? :P

To get that to work, I had to tell it to make red-on-black text, gray-on-black
text, and white-on-black text, and then redefine black, white, and the two
grays.  When I tell it to display red-on-white or black-on-white, it comes out
red-on-gray or black-on-gray.  According to the ncurses manpages, I might
have to set the A_BLINK attribute (a very old 1983 DOS legacy bit) in order
to see bright backgrounds without redefining colors.  But I'm not willing to
do anything that kludgey to make it work, because it would royally screw up
on systems that actually handled the A_BLINK attribute as blinking text.

Maybe I'll just make all of the colors externally redefinable in this utility.

that's always a good idea...  may I ask what it is?  looks a lot like
MEW right now :P

Dan



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  Re: gnome-terminal colors
 
(...) Uhm, Hmm, I dunno. It's what's installed by default from RHL6.1 when I click the terminal icon at the bottom of the panel, and I like it. What others should I try? Looks like xterm is somewhat configurable but I haven't read its manpage (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) Well, I'm not exactly trying to do anything weird, but I would like arbitrary- colored text to display properly on a white background. Here's what I'm doing: (URL) get that to work, I had to tell it to make red-on-black text, gray-on-black (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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