On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 10:30:30PM -0500, Davidson wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2026, Davidson wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2026, Davidson wrote: > > > > So I then did > > > > > > # ln -Tv /etc/newt/palette.dark /etc/newt/palette > > > > It now occurs to me that this hard linking could bite me later, if > > anything clobbers > > > > /etc/newt/palette > > > > because palatte.dark, which is data I do not want to lose, would get > > clobbered too. So I have done > > > > # ln -Tvsf /etc/newt/palette.dark /etc/newt/palette > > > > to make palette a soft link instead. > > LOL. A soft link suffers from the same problem as the hard link. > > # rm /etc/newt/palette > # cp -a /etc/newt/palette.dark /etc/newt/palette
Aha! So newt it is. Doing a "strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnewt.so.0.52 | less" yields, among lots of other stuff, this: white /etc/newt/palette NEWT_COLORS_FILE NEWT_COLORS LC_ALL LC_CTYPE LANG ...so perhaps you can point at another palette file with the environment variable NEWT_COLORS_FILE or even (gasp! :) stuff colours directly into NET_COLORS... Cheers & thanks for investigating -- tomás
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