[gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-04-19, Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
> On 2018-04-19 08:16, Klaus Ethgen wrote:

>> I use light background and many colors of emerge and other tools are
>> simple unreadable (like light green). I searched how to adapt them to
>> my background but did not success. I already know about color.map but
>> this just allows to tune some colors and not all (at least the ones
>> that are documented in the man page).
>
> It depends on your terminal app.  I use (u)rxvt and I remap the colors
> for it globally.  Here are the settings (from .Xresources):
>
> *.beNiceToColormap: false
> Rxvt.background: seashell
> Rxvt.color10: green4
> Rxvt.color11: orange2
> Rxvt.color14: cyan4
> Rxvt.color2: green3
> Rxvt.color3: orange
> Rxvt.color6: cyan3
> Rxvt.foreground: Gray40

Doesn't that mess up the colors for other applications?

Or do you use the custom urxvt settings just for emerge et alia?

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