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Re: Color Schemes
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:44:51AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> AFAIUI, the mapping of escape codes to which visual colours they mean
>> is utterly fixed by ANSI, and it is, as you say, the termulator's job
>> to display the correct visual colour. We could attempt in cygwin's
>> console-handling code to look up the current console's current
>> palette and attempt some kind of best-fit matching, at least in
>> theory, but there's still the old SHTDI problem there....
>
> [...] and I am not aware of any way to examine the terminal's
> "palette", nor should you need to. If a user wants to fiddle with
> these, it is his responsibility to keep things legible.
Huh?
$ grep color ~/.Xdefaults
*color0: #000000
*color1: #D1BFB1
*color2: #99CCCC
*color3: #C8B27F
*color4: #8DB6CD
*color5: #CC99CC
*color6: #A8A8D9
*color7: #7697A7
*color8: #000000
*color9: #80A0B0
*color10: #99CCCC
*color11: #40677A
*color12: #8DB6CD
*color13: #CC99CC
*color14:
*color15: #87CEFF
*colorBD: #8DB6CD
*colorUL: #C8B27F
*cursorColor: #84A9A9
Or am I missing something?
--
George
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