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From: Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get rid of colors (console and xterm)?
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 21:26:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ae342a8-e7af-439b-2de0-4e3f67d1a43a@groessler.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bly938vs.fsf@ra.horus-it.com>

Thanks Ralph.

In the meanwhile I had found out the "NOCOLORS" setting in make.conf 
which works for "emerge".

man pages in color are the other most important problem right now. I 
will check out your suggestion.

regards,
chris

On 7/4/19 9:19 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> * Christian Groessler:
>
>> My question is how do I get rid of colors in "emerge", "man" and other
>> command line programs.
> The methods vary between command line tools.  You can for example
> disable the 'manpager' USE flag for sys-apps/man-db. The manual page for
> emerge mentions different methods (search for "--color"). Depending on
> the terminal software you use, you might be able to select monochromatic
> colour profiles (iterm2 for macOS does support this).
>
> -Ralph
>


  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-04 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <d27fb9e6-dd78-99dd-76ce-b9aaf90b9da1@groessler.org>
2019-07-04 19:10 ` [gentoo-user] How do I get rid of colors (console and xterm)? Christian Groessler
2019-07-04 19:19   ` Ralph Seichter
2019-07-04 19:26     ` Christian Groessler [this message]
2019-07-04 21:13       ` David Haller
2019-07-04 21:48   ` Grant Taylor
2019-07-05  8:19     ` wiicontroller
2019-07-05 18:50   ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2019-07-08  8:18     ` Christian Groessler
2019-07-08 15:47       ` Grant Taylor
2019-07-22 19:38       ` Christian Groessler

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