Easy way to change color output of Portage?

StifflerStealth · l33t Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 918

Hi,

Is there an easy way to change the color that emerge displays when using pretend? More specifically, I use a white background for my terminal emulator and portage displays some text in yellow and I can't read that, so I want to change it to something else so I can read it.

Example:

fredor · Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:11 pm Post subject:

If you are using KDE terminal, you can change the colours with 'Settings >> Schema' (I think), and unless you save the settings, it will revert to normal next time you use it.
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PaulBredbury · Veteran Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 5740

I suppose you could change the calls to yellow() in /usr/bin/emerge to e.g. brown(). The colour functions are in /usr/lib/portage/pym/output.py

StifflerStealth · l33t Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 918

Thanks for the info. I was kinda hoping for a config file with a list of colors for various output features. Editing /usr/bin/emerge is hard because there are 3,346 lines of code in there, and if I emerge a new version, I would need to diff all those changes so, editing /usr/lib/portage/pym/output.py is a more logical choice. I just change the codes of yellow to some other color. That is a dirty hack, but it is more pernament and will change over all terminals and even native command line. I really wish for a config file though. Oh well. Thanks again.

Cheers.

EDIT: If you want to know, I changed it to purple since that was unsed and that looks nice.

It's a very nice color on the console.

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blue.sca · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:19 pm Post subject:

I would also see an easy method to set the color of the emerge output.
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Phlogiston · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:03 pm Post subject:

Same here, please change that silly yellow

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Maedhros · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:07 pm Post subject:

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads in favour of Portage / emerge: Marking new flags with % / yellow toggle?
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