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

From Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text?
Date 2021-06-01 03:50 +0200
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On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 07:30:42PM -0400, songbird wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
> > The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not say 
> > how to obtain it.
> 
>   i'd put in my .bashrc the line:
> 
>   TERM="vt102" && export TERM

That's unwise.  It'll screw you up *hard* any time you're not using
the terminal you normally use -- e.g. on ssh logins, or if you want to
test another terminal, or if you use tmux or screen, etc.

> > IIRC the VT100 series were *physically* a B&W display.
> 
>   no, phosphors were white, green and amber.

He probably meant monochrome.

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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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