xterm Colors

AlphaSigmaOne · 09-26-2008, 01:04 AM

How does one enable the association colors in xterm? I looked in the man page, but it's really big and I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for. All a google got me was to try

Code:

TERM=xterm-color

or create a .bash profile file. Neither did anything.

While I'm at it, how do I go about increasing the font size? The xterm font is considerably smaller than konsole and kinda hard to read.

duryodhan · 09-26-2008, 01:37 AM

The font can be changed via the ~/.Xresources file ... for e.g mine is :

Quote:

# File : .Xresources
xterm*font: -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
xterm*font1: -*-*-*-*-*-*-2-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm*font2: -misc-fixed-*-r-normal-*-8-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
xterm*font3: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm*font4: -*-screen-bold-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
xterm*font5: -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm*font6: -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
xterm*font7: -dec-terminal-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*

XTerm*background: black
XTerm*foreground: white
XTerm*pointerColor: red
XTerm*pointerColorBackground: black
XTerm*cursorColor: green
XTerm*internalBorder: 3
XTerm*loginShell: true
XTerm*scrollBar: false
XTerm*scrollKey: true
XTerm*saveLines: 1000
XTerm*multiClickTime: 250

The colors are bash specific .. your .bashrc should be able to do it .. google around , its pretty easy.

IsharaComix · 09-26-2008, 07:45 AM

What I do is just change it when I punch it in the command line and/or change the preferences for it:

~$xterm -fg red -bg yellow &

fg is your text color and bg is your background color. If you only want to change a few options, its easier than looking at files.

MarsDude · 09-26-2008, 08:51 AM

I think that what OP means is not the font and bg colors, but different colors when using the ls command. Is that right?

In that case you should be able to do it with an alias for ls in your .bashrc

Like:

Code:

alias ls='ls --color -a'

AlphaSigmaOne · 09-26-2008, 10:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by duryodhan

The font can be changed via the ~/.Xresources file ... for e.g mine is :

The colors are bash specific .. your .bashrc should be able to do it .. google around , its pretty easy.

That's what I was looking for, thanks.

Now a little trial and error and I should be good to go.

sahko · 09-27-2008, 01:02 AM

Code:

!xterm colors
xterm*foreground:       #d3d3d3
xterm*background:       #000000
xterm*cursorColor:      orange
xterm*color0:           #151515
xterm*color8:           #505450
xterm*color1:           #bf7979
xterm*color9:           #f4a45f
xterm*color2:           #97b26b
xterm*color10:          #c5f779
xterm*color3:           #cdcda1
xterm*color11:          #ffffaf
xterm*color4:           #4a5463
xterm*color12:          #7d8794
xterm*color5:           #9c3885
xterm*color13:          #e628ba
xterm*color6:           #88aadd
xterm*color14:          #99ccff
xterm*color7:           #ffffff
xterm*color15:          #dedede

!xterm settings
xterm*dynamicColors:    true
xterm*utf8:             2
xterm*eightBitInput:    true
xterm*scrollTtyKeypress:true
xterm*scrollTtyOutput:  false
xterm*scrollBar:        false
xterm*loginShell:       true
xterm*faceName:         Terminus:pixelsize=14
xterm*jumpScroll:       true
xterm*multiScroll:      true
xterm*toolBar:          false
xterm*charClass:        33:48,35-38:48,39:43,42-47:48,58-59:48,61:48,63-64:48,126:48

This is mine. The last line is extremely useful as it automatically catches urls when clicked with the mouse.

keefaz · 09-27-2008, 06:23 AM

I have a perl script for showing the X colors names defined in /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt
It outputs an html page

Just save it as colors.pl, chmod +x it and run it as:

Code:

./colors.pl > out.html
firefox out.html

PHP Code:


			
#!/usr/bin/perl

die $! unless open F, "/usr/share/X11/rgb.txt";

print <<END
<html><header><title>X Colors Names</title></header>
<body><table>
END
;

while (<F>) {
  next if /^!/;
  chomp;
  my($num,$name) = split /t{2,}/;
  $num =~ s/^s+//;
  my($r, $g, $b) = split /s+/, $num;
  my $hexcolor = '#' . sprintf "%02X%02X%02X", $r, $g, $b;

print <<END
<tr>
  <td width="50%" bgcolor="$hexcolor">&nbsp;</td>
  <td><span style="color: $hexcolor">$name</span></td>
  <td>rgb($r, $g, $b)</td>
  <td>$hexcolor</td>
</tr>
END
;

}

close F;
print "</table></body></html>\n";

duryodhan · 09-27-2008, 08:06 AM

sahko : it might help if you told the name of the file

keefaz · 09-27-2008, 08:11 AM

I am not sahko, but I guess the conf file is ~/.Xresources

[edit]
As you already know it

sahko · 09-27-2008, 10:51 AM

actually i use .Xdefaults not .Xresources :P

AlphaSigmaOne · 09-27-2008, 11:55 AM

^

Actually, that was going to be my next question: whats the diff with .Xresources and .Xdefaults?

The only reason I had the question in the first place is before I was just using KDE (and thus Konsole) so it wasn't and issue. But the other day I started farting around with the other windows managers that come with Slack and fell head over heals with Fluxbox.

To that end, I've been reading a lot of Flux how-tos and they all say use .Xdefaults. I just wondered if there was a difference.

keefaz · 09-27-2008, 12:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sahko

actually i use .Xdefaults not .Xresources :P

Ouch!

I guess a ln -s .Xresources .Xdefaults might help also

AlphaSigmaOne · 09-27-2008, 01:27 PM

One other thing, is there a line I can add that will show those bash login quote things of Pat's? I like those.

sahko · 09-27-2008, 02:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlphaSigmaOne

^

Actually, that was going to be my next question: whats the diff with .Xresources and .Xdefaults?

The only reason I had the question in the first place is before I was just using KDE (and thus Konsole) so it wasn't and issue. But the other day I started farting around with the other windows managers that come with Slack and fell head over heals with Fluxbox.

To that end, I've been reading a lot of Flux how-tos and they all say use .Xdefaults. I just wondered if there was a difference.

I have been using window managers for years, dwm the last 2 and always using an .Xdefaults file. IIRC .Xresources is the "oldschool way" to do it.

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Arch.../msg00024.html says that thats the other way around.

As for a symlink i havent got any but it works for me despite that.

keefaz · 09-27-2008, 03:10 PM

the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.* scripts seem to rely on $HOME/.Xresources though
only xinitrc.xfce seems to care about $HOME/.Xdefaults