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From: James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com>
To: Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+gentoo@××××××.de>
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge colors and light background
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:27:14
Message-Id: m3wox3kq6n.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge colors and light background by Klaus Ethgen
1 >>>>> "KE" == Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+gentoo@××××××.de> writes:
2
3 KE> I use light background and many colors of emerge and other tools are
4 KE> simple unreadable (like light green).
5
6 I also use light backgrounds for my terminals.
7
8 For eix, I have this in a file in /etc/eixrc/:
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10 BG0=none
11 BG1=none
12 BG2=none
13 BG3=none
14 COLORSCHEME0=3
15 COLORSCHEME1=3
16
17
18 That is not as good as eix did before the current 256-color schemes were
19 added, but it is not unreadable.
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21 For portage, I find its color choices to be OK.
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23 My environment includes:
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25 COLORFGBG='0;15'
26 COLORTERM=rxvt
27
28 And in ~/.Xdefaults I have:
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30 URxvt*background: white
31 URxvt*color3: chocolate4
32 URxvt*color11: chocolate2
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34 For terms like xterm and the rxvts you can configure any X11 colors for
35 each of the numbered terminal colors.
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37 URxvt's default colours are:
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39 ! color0 (black) = Black
40 ! color1 (red) = Red3
41 ! color2 (green) = Green3
42 ! color3 (yellow) = Yellow3
43 ! color4 (blue) = Blue3
44 ! color5 (magenta) = Magenta3
45 ! color6 (cyan) = Cyan3
46 ! color7 (white) = AntiqueWhite
47 ! color8 (bright black) = Grey25
48 ! color9 (bright red) = Red
49 ! color10 (bright green) = Green
50 ! color11 (bright yellow) = Yellow
51 ! color12 (bright blue) = Blue
52 ! color13 (bright magenta) = Magenta
53 ! color14 (bright cyan) = Cyan
54 ! color15 (bright white) = White
55 ! foreground = Black
56 ! background = White
57
58 I'm sure most terminals have some way of doing that sort of configuration.
59
60 -JimC
61 --
62 James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

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[gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>