On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:54:59 +1100, Andrew Bennetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Generally you don't program the terminal directly; unix terminals are arcane >and generally slightly incompatible between terminal emulators. Instead, >you'd use a library like ncurses. > >Also, the exact colors depend somewhat on the terminal emulator (in your >case gnome-terminal) and the terminal's settings, so I'm not sure that there >is any useful reference of the available colours, beyond perhaps "red", >"blue", etc. > >What are you trying to do? The best answer for what you want depends on if >you're simply customising your bash prompt, or writing a full-blown terminal >app, or something in-between.
I'm using an application that controls that colors of the terminal using escape sequences such as ESC [ 1 m. The default colours are hard to read. Although I change all of gnome-terminal's 16 color palette entries, which palette entry does ESC [ 1 m correspond to? >-Andrew. Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
