• Registered: 2012-01-31
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Topic: Coloured text in term apps, conky, etc?

Hi everyone,

I'm a bit new to using conky, and terminal apps. However I use the terminal a lot for ssh and programming.

What I've noticed with most of the screenshots in the February thread, is that many people have a coloured theme that is used for all of their programs.

Particularly, the terminal, a CLI music player (MOC?) and conky.

Is there a beginners guide to setting up a system-wide color theme? Will the colours work in any terminal application? I haven't settled on a CLI frontend for MPD, is it just one frontend that supports it, or all of them?

Thanks!

  • From: The White Mountains
  • Registered: 2010-05-05
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Re: Coloured text in term apps, conky, etc?

All separate.

But for conky: see Conky PitStop in my sig or visit us at The New Monster Conky Thread

bash colours. hmmm --- Colours

Last edited by Sector11 (2012-02-04 23:51:01)

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  • Registered: 2011-03-09
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Re: Coloured text in term apps, conky, etc?

colorschemes: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … creenshot/

how do they get activated? this is different for each app. to give you an example, i have the following in my ~/.bashrc :

alias ls="ls -F --color --group-directories-first"

this is a bash-alias, making it so that whenever i type 'ls', it will actually execute that full command. inside the command, it has the 'color' option switched on. so each 'ls' i do, will be a colored one. the colors which ls uses for this are the ones described in my terminal colorscheme.

(please note that the above-mentioned thread does not work with Terminator because Terminator doesn't use Xdefaults for its colors. it might be able to, but not by default, afaik. urxvt, another terminal emulator, does. so consider that.)

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  • From: The White Mountains
  • Registered: 2010-05-05
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Re: Coloured text in term apps, conky, etc?

Colour works in terminator...

http://thumbnails26.imagebam.com/17322/5b4e4f173215891.jpg

And I have a blue $ and a green cursor, or did I totally miss something?

my prompt in terminator:

export PS1="$light_gray\n  \$(date +%R:%S) \w\n         $cyan\\$ $no_color"

Oops: Yup --- Terminator doesn't use Xdefaults for its colors
Sorry ...

Last edited by Sector11 (2012-02-05 00:23:12)

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  • Registered: 2011-06-02
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Re: Coloured text in term apps, conky, etc?

Like mentioned, you could settle on urxvt and pimp your .Xdefaults. You could use some examples provided by some #!'ers and start your CLI apps from urxvt and they will look like desired.

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