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Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text?

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On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 08:41:37AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not
> say how to obtain it.
> IIRC the VT100 series were *physically* a B&W display.
> Web search gives no useful information.

The "VT102" emulation refers to compatibility wrt escape sequences
(basically some variation of ANSI), not to the appearance.

Anyway, VT100 [1] was most probably dark background by default; that
said, you probably could change it. Perhaps there's even an ANSI
escape sequence for this, but it, uh... escapes me currently ;-)

I'm sure there is a way to configure MATE terminal's colours to
your heart's content (me? I'm an Xterm fanboi ;-)

Have a look at this [2], it seems promising. Search for "Customize
Terminal" [3].

Cheers

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100
[2] https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-mate-customization/
[3] People can't be bothered to introduce anchors
   in their web pages. Sigh.

 - tomás

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Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-31 15:50 +0200
  Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-31 16:00 +0200
  Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-05-31 16:00 +0200
  Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-05-31 16:10 +0200
  Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-06-01 03:40 +0200
    Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-01 03:50 +0200
      Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-06-01 04:30 +0200
      Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-01 15:00 +0200
      Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-06-01 16:50 +0200
      Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-06-01 16:10 +0200
        Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-01 16:30 +0200

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