Re: [gentoo-user] terminal colors
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, momesana wrote: Does anybody know how to set colors on the terminals? I don't mean the colors associated with the ls command which can be realized by the entry alias=ls --color in ./bashrc or ./profile but rather a way to controll how output to the console looks like. I need this because I want to make shellscripts that output something on screen look better (just like emerge :-) ). I have tried: setterm -foreground ... -background ... but it wouldn't work. The only thing that works is setterm -bold under X and setterm -reversescreen under the ordinary shells (without X). What you want is ANSI escape sequences. The best source for that I've seen is the bash prompt howto: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x343.html If you have a mail reader capable of interpreting ANSI codes, I wouldn't be able to show you here, but I can tell you the following: You must use 'echo -e' or echo won't interpret it. The code just needs to start with \0... (the \[ before that in the examples is just for putting a [ at the beginning of the prompt). Happy coloring. :) -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] terminal colors
It works and it is great ! :-) That is exactly what I was looking for. Thanx you for your assistance Am Freitag, 12. September 2003 18:32 schrieb Marshal Newrock: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, momesana wrote: Does anybody know how to set colors on the terminals? I don't mean the colors associated with the ls command which can be realized by the entry alias=ls --color in ./bashrc or ./profile but rather a way to controll how output to the console looks like. I need this because I want to make shellscripts that output something on screen look better (just like emerge :-) ). I have tried: setterm -foreground ... -background ... but it wouldn't work. The only thing that works is setterm -bold under X and setterm -reversescreen under the ordinary shells (without X). What you want is ANSI escape sequences. The best source for that I've seen is the bash prompt howto: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x343.html If you have a mail reader capable of interpreting ANSI codes, I wouldn't be able to show you here, but I can tell you the following: You must use 'echo -e' or echo won't interpret it. The code just needs to start with \0... (the \[ before that in the examples is just for putting a [ at the beginning of the prompt). Happy coloring. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] terminal colors
Does anybody know how to set colors on the terminals? I don't mean the colors associated with the ls command which can be realized by the entry alias=ls --color in ./bashrc or ./profile but rather a way to controll how output to the console looks like. I need this because I want to make shellscripts that output something on screen look better (just like emerge :-) ). I have tried: setterm -foreground ... -background ... but it wouldn't work. The only thing that works is setterm -bold under X and setterm -reversescreen under the ordinary shells (without X). I have read through a bunch of mailing lists in order to find the reason for this and somebody had noted that it was because of some escape sequences that are automatically added because of my configuration. I have pasted the message from that mailinglist beneath. any suggestions? email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanx in advance. momesana. setterm -inversescreen on worked on my potato, but setterm -background black -foreground green setterm -background green -foreground black seemed to do nothing... then i realized i have some escape sequences built in to my command prompt -- plus, whenever i do a ls --color the escape sequences always reset it to white. just thought i send out a flare to give the folks new to setterm a heads-up on various caveats... terminal settings can be transient and changed easily through escape sequences (editors, listings, etc)... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] terminal colors
I use xterm and what I do is to set parameters in my ~/.Xdefaults My setting is: # Font XTerm*faceName: XTerm*faceSize: 10 # Colors XTerm*background: gray75 XTerm*foreground: gray10 XTerm*cursorColor: goldenrod1 # Cursor Blinking XTerm*cursorBlink: true XTerm*cursorOnTime: 500 XTerm*cursorOffTime: 500 # Mouse selection XTerm*cutNewline:false XTerm*highlightSelection: true XTerm*charClass: 33:48,35:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,64:48,95:48,126:48,35:48,58:48 but you can find a lot of other versions in the internet. You can set any color you want (not just foregrond and background.) alb On Sep 12 at 12:19AM+, momesana wrote: Does anybody know how to set colors on the terminals? I don't mean the colors associated with the ls command which can be realized by the entry alias=ls --color in ./bashrc or ./profile but rather a way to controll how output to the console looks like. I need this because I want to make shellscripts that output something on screen look better (just like emerge :-) ). I have tried: setterm -foreground ... -background ... but it wouldn't work. The only thing that works is setterm -bold under X and setterm -reversescreen under the ordinary shells (without X). I have read through a bunch of mailing lists in order to find the reason for this and somebody had noted that it was because of some escape sequences that are automatically added because of my configuration. I have pasted the message from that mailinglist beneath. any suggestions? email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanx in advance. momesana. setterm -inversescreen on worked on my potato, but setterm -background black -foreground green setterm -background green -foreground black seemed to do nothing... then i realized i have some escape sequences built in to my command prompt -- plus, whenever i do a ls --color the escape sequences always reset it to white. just thought i send out a flare to give the folks new to setterm a heads-up on various caveats... terminal settings can be transient and changed easily through escape sequences (editors, listings, etc)... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
