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Re: Color Schemes


George wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:59:09PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
George wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:44:51AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
Dave Korn wrote:
[...] 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.
$ grep color ~/.Xdefaults
[...]
Or am I missing something?
Sure. Now do it for Konsole (hint: DCOP *might* let you), CUI, Console, rxvt, PuTTY, and every other terminal emulator in existence.

I guess I don't understand why one would expect that to be possible, or desirable.

Exactly. I don't expect it to be possible, nor do I see a purpose for it. Which is why I wondered why you went digging for how to do it with xterm. :-) So I guess we are in violent agreement?


What you found is the *default* colors for *one* emulator (what happens if you override them with command-line switches?).

No, those are my colors (the default colors are very different) and are used by any emulator that makes uses of .Xdefaults, which includes rxvt and standard xterms. Command-line switches for both are mostly in a one-to-one correspondence with the directives in .Xdefaults.

"Defaults" as in "unless command-line args are used to override them". I did notice that they looked decidedly 'non-standard'. :-)


Dave and I were talking about being able to query the terminal emulator in a standardized way, and I am pretty sure there is no such way.

Sorry for the noise.

Eh, don't worry about it. Now I know where to tinker with rxvt's "default" settings. :-) Never know who might get something out of this...


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