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aerotech
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 Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 4:45 pm Post subject: fortune mod text color |
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could anybody tell me how-to change the color of the text for my fortune-mods.
I have them added to .bash_profile
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.......
Thanx
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taviso
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 9:29 pm Post subject: Re: fortune mod text color |
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| aerotech wrote: | | could anybody tell me how-to change the color of the text for my fortune-mods. |
Your not very clear, are you writing your own fortunes for use with fortune-mod and want to use colour in them, or would you just like to colourise the text from fortune when you login?
I'm going to assume the latter, try this.
| Code: | | # emerge app-misc/color |
Then change your ~/.bash_profile to run fortune like this:
| Code: | color ltgreen
fortune
color off |
Your login cookie is now in bright green 
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aerotech
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 12:02 am Post subject: |
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Thank you I apologize if I was not very clear, that was exactly what i was after
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syscrash
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 1:27 am Post subject: Re: fortune mod text color |
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| taviso wrote: | | aerotech wrote: | | could anybody tell me how-to change the color of the text for my fortune-mods. |
Your not very clear, are you writing your own fortunes for use with fortune-mod and want to use colour in them, or would you just like to colourise the text from fortune when you login?
I'm going to assume the latter, try this.
| Code: | | # emerge app-misc/color |
Then change your ~/.bash_profile to run fortune like this:
| Code: | color ltgreen
fortune
color off |
Your login cookie is now in bright green |
I would love this, except for one problem.
| Code: | root@syscrash2k syscrash2k # emerge app-misc/color
Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "app-misc/color".
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.
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color ebuild removed?  |
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k9
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Location: Salt Lake City, USA
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 1:58 am Post subject: |
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Try:
| Code: | | echo -ne "\e[1;31m"; fortune; echo -ne "\e[0m" |
The first echo command makes the terminal use bright red. The second echo reverts the terminal back to "normal" colors.
Among other places, the following page will tell you how the codes work:
http://www.bluesock.org/~willg/dev/ansi.html |
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taviso
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 1:05 pm Post subject: Re: fortune mod text color |
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| syscrash2k wrote: | | color ebuild removed? |
Nope, I only added it yesterday 
try syncing, and it should be there
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syscrash
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 2:07 pm Post subject: Re: fortune mod text color |
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| taviso wrote: | | syscrash2k wrote: | | color ebuild removed? |
Nope, I only added it yesterday
try syncing, and it should be there |
Cool, thanks 
| k9 wrote: | Try:
| Code: | | echo -ne "\e[1;31m"; fortune; echo -ne "\e[0m" |
The first echo command makes the terminal use bright red. The second echo reverts the terminal back to "normal" colors.
Among other places, the following page will tell you how the codes work:
http://www.bluesock.org/~willg/dev/ansi.html |
Thanks anyway, but 'color' is so much easier  |
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viperlin
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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| they spelt colour wrong by the way |
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taviso
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| viperlin wrote: | | they spelt colour wrong by the way |
yeah, I got tired of `colour: command not found` so theres a symlink in there for us brits
| Code: | $ ls -l /usr/bin/colour
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2003-10-24 22:51 /usr/bin/colour -> /usr/bin/color* |
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viperlin
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| no i think if americans are going to steal our language they can at least spell things right |
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syscrash
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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Don't talk to me about that, in canada it is also spelt
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