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r4st3r
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 Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:41 pm Post subject: linux palette colors in aterm |
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Hi everyone,
A real quick post that will hopefully solve problems for people wanting the actual linux console colors in their aterms. Yes, the exact colors from /etc/DIR_COLORS that .bashrc reads from--not some, "well it's close enough, or these are nice too" colors. Wanting to do this very thing I went over a bunch of posts and learned quite a bit. I also checked out the docs for aterm under /usr/share/docs. I tried a to experiment on my own with colors, and spent entirely too much time copy and pasting other peoples' .Xdefaults. Finally, I had an epiphany.
In gnome-terminal's profile editing dialogue you can opt to make your own custom palette or preselect built-in color schemes. Part of my gome setup is to pick "linux colors" with a white on black theme. It occured to me that I could probably click on the palette colors and get the right values. So, to make a long story short, here's my ~/.Xdefaults file. Problem solved for everyone wanting the exact linux colors in their aterms.
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# ~/.Xdefaults
# Aterm Terminal Settings
aterm*loginShell:true
aterm*transparent:true
aterm*shading:30
aterm*scrollBar:true
aterm*scrollBar_right:true
aterm*transpscrollbar:true
# 786 lines = 500 KB of memory
aterm*saveLines:786
# Aterm Font Settings, selected using 'xfontsel'
aterm*font:-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso8859-1
aterm*boldFont:-xos4-terminus-bold-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso8859-1
# Aterm Color Settings
aterm*background: black
aterm*foreground: white
aterm*cursorColor: white
# I got these colors from using gnome-terminal's color
# dialogue. under Palette, i selected 'linux console'
# and just middle-mouse copied the values over--a swell hack
aterm*color0: #000000
aterm*color1: #AA0000
aterm*color2: #00AA00
aterm*color3: #AA5500
aterm*color4: #0000AA
aterm*color5: #AA00AA
aterm*color6: #00AAAA
aterm*color7: #AAAAAA
aterm*color8: #555555
aterm*color9: #FF5555
aterm*color10: #55FF55
aterm*color11: #FFFF55
aterm*color12: #5555FF
aterm*color13: #FF55FF
aterm*color14: #55FFFF
aterm*color15: #FFFFFF
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Works like a champ. Take care. |
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Farkenell
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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Hrmm...I'm using that as my ~/.Xdefaults but I think something higher up is overriding it....cause I'm not getting any colours on ls (executables, etc)....
anyone able to help out? |
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r4st3r
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 8:47 am Post subject: |
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Could you post your .bashrc, that's almost has to be what's wrong.
-take care |
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Insanity5902
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:14 am Post subject: |
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| Farkenell wrote: | Hrmm...I'm using that as my ~/.Xdefaults but I think something higher up is overriding it....cause I'm not getting any colours on ls (executables, etc)....
anyone able to help out? |
have you set an alias up for ls so it is ls --color
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r4st3r
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| Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:36 am Post subject: .bashrc |
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Yeah, ls needs the color alias. For example, here's my .bashrc
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# /etc/skel/.bashrc:
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/skel/.bashrc,v 1.8 2003/02/28 15:45:35 azarah Exp $
# This file is sourced by all *interactive* bash shells on startup. This
# file *should generate no output* or it will break the scp and rcp commands.
# colors for ls, etc.
eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`
alias d="ls --color"
alias ls="ls --color=auto"
alias ll="ls --color -l"
alias la="ls --color -a"
export PATH="$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:~/bin"
# Change the window title of X terminals
case $TERM in
xterm*|rxvt|Eterm|eterm)
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
;;
screen)
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033_${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\033\\"'
;;
esac
##uncomment the following to activate bash-completion:
#[ -f /etc/profile.d/bash-completion ] && source /etc/profile.d/bash-completion
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