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On Wed, 10 May 2006, Justin Findlay wrote: |
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> On 5/10/06, Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@××××××××××××.pt> wrote: |
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>> Konsole. Allows me to set a background. Nothing fancy, just a very light |
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>> yellow wich I find appropriate for my eyesight. Also allows to customize |
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>> text colors (directories, symlinks,etc). These two points are _really_ |
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>> important--we're not talking eye candy here. |
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> You can change those colors for all tereminals by copying |
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> /etc/DIR_COLORS to ~/.DIR_COLORS. |
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But can I use them in any terminal, e.g. xterm? I suppose so, but how |
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can a non-initiate know how to do it? I'm not saying that Konsole is |
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perfect, far from it--for example, the font I use (Luxi mono) is |
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impossible to choose from the settings dialog, I had to edit a conf file |
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thanks to a suggestion by someone in this list, long ago. But at least I |
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can set the colors for the background and the text. Anyway, in my home |
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computer (just 1.5GHz, P4) Konsole is reasonably fast... |
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I just launched a xterm, just to see how it goes. The "TrueType Fonts" |
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entry in the "VT Fonts" menu is dimmed; I checked that xterm was emerged |
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with the "truetype" flag selected. The fonts are not too bad, but Luxi |
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Mono is better. And I see no menu entry to change it... |
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I don't doubt that xterm is a good piece of software, it's just that |
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some functionalities are important for some of us. And the same goes for |
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other emulators. |
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Anyway, thanks for the hint. It may be usefull. |
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Jorge Almeida |
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