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Re: gnome-terminal colors
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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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:
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> 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.
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> 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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| (...) 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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