From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 23 19:39:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F5C37B403 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moo.holy.cow (sdn-ar-003dcwashP112.dialsprint.net [206.133.21.72]) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA15971; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:39:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2A51150CF1; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:54:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:54:14 -0400 From: parv To: John Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: colors really dark Message-ID: <20011023135414.A20763@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: John Smith , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from ludwicza@hotmail.com on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:09:43AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message , wrote John Smith thusly... > > >... > > > I was thinking about 8-bit > > > color for a second, but does a default install automatically pick this > >for > > > you, and is there any way of changing it? > > > >see XFree86 manual(s) and/or XF86Config somewhere in /etc. > > > > Hmmm, are you talking about color depth in xterm or what I'm using in the X > server? In that latter case, I'm using 16bpp. I'm assuming this is what > you meant, I guess I got confused with the other guy said earlier. yes, i was referring to the color depth set by/for X server. > >well, as far as ls(1) & gnuls(1) are concerned, they just use different > >"fonts" & colors. for ls, all the colored listing are in normal font, > >i.e. not bold. whereas, gnuls uses bold fonts, which happens to be > >in "bright"er version of the same color than normal font. ... > >you may be able to change to color definitions. to get some idea, see > >vidcontrol(1) and xterm(1) in addition. ... > > Yeah, I played around alot with vidcontrol before, but that still doesn't > help with vim, and I'm happy with gnuls' choice of colors ... ... i am unaware about any material functional differences between vi & vim, but there is an important difference between ls & gnuls. ls can show flags set by chflags(1) w/ its "o" option, but not gnuls. that's understandable, too, as that behaviour would be system dependent. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message