Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get rid of colors (console and xterm)?

[Grant Taylor]

On 7/4/19 1:10 PM, Christian Groessler wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> I'm new here. My question is how do I get rid of colors in "emerge",
> "man" and other command line programs. I managed to do in the shell
> (bash), but I'm somehow lost how to change it elsewhere. In "vi" I know
> of "syn off".

Try changing your terminal type (TERM environment variable) to something 
that doesn't support color.  I'd suggest VT100.

Try the following in a terminal session and see if that helps.

    export TERM=vt100

> See attached a pic of an xterm window, which I cannot read easily. (I'm
> color-blind, so this might enhance the problem.)

You can also redefine the colors in XTerm so that anything that thinks 
it's using a given color number is actually using whatever RGB value you 
set.  Thus you can alter the colors to whatever you want.



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