X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: Color Schemes Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:43:11 -0500 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <04d201c6cc93$1e0ec0e0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20060831170223.GA1392@home> <20060901073142.GA1120@home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <20060901073142.GA1120@home> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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... -- Matthew Do not expose to hippos. Doing so may void your warranty. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/