Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

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Subject	Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 12:27:17AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> And, that also applies, if provision for coloured text is commented out, in
> the .bashrc file.

There's nothing in .bashrc which controls the terminal's interpretation
of color escape sequences.  Or in bash, anywhere.

It's entirely between the terminal, and the application which generates
the color sequences.  The shell is not involved.

The closest the shell comes to being involved is if you try to trick the
application into thinking it's on a different kind of terminal, by
changing the TERM variable.  This rarely works out well, except in
very specific circumstances -- the most notable being "I'm ssh-ing to
a system that doesn't know about my terminal type".

As I've already tested today, it sure as hell doesn't work for apt(8).

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Font color selection in MATE terminal Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-22 15:20 +0200
  Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-22 15:30 +0200
  Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-06-22 15:30 +0200
    Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-22 15:50 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-06-22 16:30 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-06-22 16:30 +0200
  Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-06-22 15:30 +0200
    Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-22 15:40 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-22 21:20 +0200
  Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-22 16:00 +0200
    Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-06-22 16:40 +0200
  Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-22 16:40 +0200
    Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-22 17:40 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2021-06-22 18:50 +0200
    Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Siard <shiems@mailbox.org> - 2021-06-22 18:30 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-23 11:40 +0200
        Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Siard <shiems@mailbox.org> - 2021-06-23 13:40 +0200
        At least a partial solution - was [Re: Font color selection in MATE  terminal] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-23 14:30 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2021-07-02 07:40 +0200
        Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Siard <shiems@mailbox.org> - 2021-07-02 13:30 +0200
          Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2021-07-02 18:10 +0200
  Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2021-06-22 18:20 +0200
    Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-06-22 18:40 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2021-06-22 20:50 +0200
    Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2021-06-22 19:00 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-22 19:50 +0200
        Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2021-06-22 20:30 +0200
          Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-22 20:50 +0200
            Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2021-06-22 21:20 +0200
              Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-22 21:30 +0200
              Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-22 21:30 +0200
  RESOLVED: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-24 13:10 +0200

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