From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HZWkB-0003b8-7u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:31:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l35IT9cI006176; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:29:09 GMT Received: from mxfep03.bredband.com (mxfep03.bredband.com [195.54.107.76]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l35IOfZF001489 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:24:42 GMT Received: from ironport2.bredband.com ([195.54.107.84] [195.54.107.84]) by mxfep03.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20070405182441.YSPP2708.mxfep03.bredband.com@ironport2.bredband.com> for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:24:41 +0200 Received: from c-23e272d5.08-92-73746f37.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO [192.168.2.117]) ([213.114.226.35]) by ironport2.bredband.com with ESMTP; 05 Apr 2007 20:24:41 +0200 Message-ID: <46153F46.5000504@bredband.net> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:26:14 +0200 From: Tony Stohne User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!? References: <20070404041739.GA15293@crowfix.com> <20070404160017.GC10689@crowfix.com> <4613D5E0.4010507@ep.mine.nu> <2235314.a5vYndrTxF@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> <20070405153531.0ff4cd0f@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <4615205B.1090901@bredband.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l35IT9cW006176 X-Archives-Salt: e76da58f-7d68-4dcd-9b4a-ce6d52febead X-Archives-Hash: 656edbef83ec8ec9976289e685b6c16c -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Grant Edwards said the following on 2007-04-05 19:51: |> Grant Edwards said the following on 2007-04-05 16:45: |> | ... | That will change the colors that are used by 'ls' without | breaking other programs that use color? | The colors of any other program should be unaffected unless they are dependending on the console colors AFAIK. And yes, ls colors will change, as long as You use the xterminal which colors you have changed, eg xterm, rxvt and so on . I think there is a third alternative to rgb.txt and ~/.Xdefaults. bash DIRCOLORS is an option and it will affect ls. | I used rxvt for many years until cut/paste stopped working for | me a couple years back. | Hmmm... I never had that problem so I can't help you with that one :/ Maybe someone else has more knowledge/experience than me regarding this issue. |> This should provide you with enough info on setting your preferred |> colors. Getting a black (or any other color) background is not that |> difficult, | | But I don't _want_ a black background. I want a white | background and a black foreground. | As my previous posting stated, you can set whatever color (your preferred xterminal app supports) for background and foreground , ie you can choose white foreground on black background or any other combination you prefer: For instance XTerm*background: #ffffff XTerm*foreground: #000000 in your =A8/.Xdefaults should set black on white as default values for any xterm you open (although portage could override it (?) since it's a python app(?) if my memory doesn't fail me. Right now i can't verify if it works or not because of my / disk crapping out on me.) I'm stuck Windoze again :( I'm surprised that turning off colors for portage/emerge doesn't work. It sounds like a very odd behaviour - it has always worked for me whenever I tried it (although I prefer using colors - a matter of personal taste - or lack thereof :) //Cheers Tony -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFGFT9GJDzv6DN+QUkRAubdAJ9/U6IlF1q4VfMqBwAnKuMcyPvqsgCfY8Ub DbF5xrreouE0BhP5JphKq1k=3D =3DKLL9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list