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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org>
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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background
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On 2018-04-19 20:57, Grant Edwards wrote:

> > It depends on your terminal app.  I use (u)rxvt and I remap the
> > colors for it globally.  Here are the settings (from .Xresources):
> >
> > *.beNiceToColormap: false
> > Rxvt.background: seashell
> > Rxvt.color10: green4
> > Rxvt.color11: orange2
> > Rxvt.color14: cyan4
> > Rxvt.color2: green3
> > Rxvt.color3: orange
> > Rxvt.color6: cyan3
> > Rxvt.foreground: Gray40
> 
> Doesn't that mess up the colors for other applications?

Of course it does, and that's the idea.  Otherwise I'd have the same
problem with these other applications!

> Or do you use the custom urxvt settings just for emerge et alia?

If you really needed that, it can be done with the urxvt -name option
which controls which Xresources entries apply.  I mentioned it the other
say over on the openbox list when someone asked for a way to change
terminal windows' icons.

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