[gentoo-user] konsole selected text

[gentoo-user] konsole selected text

[Daniel D Jones]

When I select Konsole's "Linux Colors" schema, selected text appears to be 
black text on a black background.  Under options, I can alter colors but I 
don't appear to be able to choose the background and foreground colors that 
are used for highlighting.  Any hints on how to fix this appreciated.

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Re: [gentoo-user] konsole selected text

[Thomas Kahle]

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Daniel D Jones wrote:
| When I select Konsole's "Linux Colors" schema, selected text appears
to be
| black text on a black background.  Under options, I can alter colors
but I
| don't appear to be able to choose the background and foreground colors
that
| are used for highlighting.  Any hints on how to fix this appreciated.
|

Hi, on my machine I use the "Linux Colors" schema for years and it works
perfectly. If mark stuff it inverts the colors, i.e. grey text on black
background gets black text on grey background.

Just some (maybe unrelated) pointers:
*) man dircolors (gentoo uses textcolors extensively)
*) Try to move your kde config somewhere else and try again with a clean
config. Maybe its something with KDE colors you changed before ?

hope to help
Thomas


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Re: [gentoo-user] konsole selected text

[Daniel D Jones]

On Monday 18 February 2008 04:26:01 Thomas Kahle wrote:
> Daniel D Jones wrote:
> | When I select Konsole's "Linux Colors" schema, selected text appears
>
> to be
>
> | black text on a black background.  Under options, I can alter colors
>
> but I
>
> | don't appear to be able to choose the background and foreground colors
>
> that
>
> | are used for highlighting.  Any hints on how to fix this appreciated.
>
> Hi, on my machine I use the "Linux Colors" schema for years and it works
> perfectly. If mark stuff it inverts the colors, i.e. grey text on black
> background gets black text on grey background.

Yes, I've been using it for a long time as well without issues.  I've never 
had this issue before.

> Just some (maybe unrelated) pointers:
> *) man dircolors (gentoo uses textcolors extensively)

I'm familiar with dircolors.  To the best of my knowledge, there's nothing in 
dircolors which configures how selected text is displayed.  It's simply 
inverted text.  That is, the background color and the foreground color are 
switched.

A little more experimenting has shown that this is what happens on my terminal 
with any color other than the default light gray on black.  For example, if I 
do a "ls," the files show up in various colors based on dircolors.  If I 
select colored files, they show up in inverse.  But if I select non-colored 
light gray text, I get black on black.  If I use 'less' to display a file, 
there's a status line at the bottom which shows the line number, etc.  in 
inverted text.  On my terminal, it's black on black and invisible.  If I 
highlight it with the mouse, however, it shows up as light gray on black and 
is visible.

If I switch to another tty (CTL-ALT-F2) and log in, dircolors settings work 
properly.  Selected text with gpm shows up as inverse, and the status line at 
the bottom of the 'less' windows displays properly as well.  So I don't think 
the issue is with dircolors.

It's only with inverted normal text on konsole.

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Re: [gentoo-user] konsole selected text

[Thomas Kahle]

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Hi again,

But if I select non-colored
| light gray text, I get black on black.  If I use 'less' to display a
file,
| there's a status line at the bottom which shows the line number, etc.  in
| inverted text.  On my terminal, it's black on black and invisible.  If I
| highlight it with the mouse, however, it shows up as light gray on
black and
| is visible.

| It's only with inverted normal text on konsole.

Just to be sure, by Konsole you mean the KDE Terminal Emulator. I guess
the problem is not there in xterm ?

Did you try to move .kde to another place and start with a clean config.
Then you can distinguish a config problem from something else.
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