Color Schemes

Thu Aug 31 18:33:00 GMT 2006

George wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:44:51AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>>> AFAIUI, the mapping of escape codes to which visual colours they mean 
>>> is utterly fixed by ANSI, and it is, as you say, the termulator's job 
>>> to display the correct visual colour. We could attempt in cygwin's 
>>> console-handling code to look up the current console's current 
>>> palette and attempt some kind of best-fit matching, at least in 
>>> theory, but there's still the old SHTDI problem there....
>> [...] 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.
>> Huh?
>> $ grep color ~/.Xdefaults
> *color0: #000000
> *color1: #D1BFB1
> *color2: #99CCCC
> *color3: #C8B27F
> *color4: #8DB6CD
> *color5: #CC99CC
> *color6: #A8A8D9
> *color7: #7697A7
> *color8: #000000
> *color9: #80A0B0
> *color10: #99CCCC
> *color11: #40677A
> *color12: #8DB6CD
> *color13: #CC99CC
> *color14:
> *color15: #87CEFF
> *colorBD: #8DB6CD
> *colorUL: #C8B27F
> *cursorColor: #84A9A9
>> 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.
What you found is the *default* colors for *one* emulator (what happens 
if you override them with command-line switches?). 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.
-- 
Matthew
We apologize for the inconvenience.
--
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/