Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:52:49 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, borish@gmx.de Subject: Re: Sysinstall colors Message-ID: <20081013225249.GA1151@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <20081013210929.GA28598@icarus.home.lan> References: <op.uirsg0uw853yip@thinkpad> <20081009190941.GA12014@icarus.home.lan> <op.uitmp9ab853yip@thinkpad> <20081010190028.GA40991@icarus.home.lan> <op.uizab8ue853yip@thinkpad> <20081013210929.GA28598@icarus.home.lan>
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 02:09:29PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:42:04PM +0200, borish@gmx.de wrote:
> > After some trial and error, I put
> >
> > XTerm*color7: #bebebe
> >
> > in my .Xdefaults. Now the yellow sysinstall font is much more legible =
=20
> > inside an xterm. This works for both xterm and rxvt. The rxvt man page =
=20
> > proved very useful.
> >
> > Now I have solved my problem but other users may experience the same =
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> > problem. Is it possible to modify sysinstall so that it uses a darker =
=20
> > background gray when run inside xterm?
>=20
> I'm not sure this is desirable or recommendable. There are some
> terminal emulation programs -- specifically, PuTTY -- which emulate
> TERM=3Dxterm. The RGB colours in PuTTY look just fine: quite legible.
more/less (putty's wrapping behavior differs)
> The key problem here is this: there are no more darker grey backgrounds
> available with the limited colour set available. You get one grey bg --
> sequence \e[47m; -- and that's it. If you want other colours, you have
> to have a 256-colour xterm compiled, which supports an extended palette,
> and there's no way to detect if someone has such a capable terminal
> (basing it on $TERM is not correct).
actually, basing it on $TERM is the way most people would do it,
e.g.,
xterm-256color|xterm with 256 colors,
am, bce, ccc, km, mc5i, mir, msgr, npc, xenl,
colors#256, cols#80, it#8, lines#24,
acsc=3D``aaffggiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~,
=2E..
initc=3D\E]4;%p1%d;rgb:%p2%{255}%*%{1000}%/%2.2X/%p3%{255}%*%{1000}%/%2.2X=
/%p4%{255}%*%{1000}%/%2.2X\E\\,
=2E..
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Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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