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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.
> Help please.
> TIA
> 
> 

MATE terminal is a fork of GNOME terminal from earlier days.

Using a search engine to search for Mate colors customisation led me here:

https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-mate-customization/ which suggests

Open the terminal

Go to the Edit menu

Select Profile Preferences - which will allow you to change palette colours.

If you really want black and white - switching away from the GUI and back using 
ALt-[Functionkey] will give you full screen black and white, of course, for
at least six full screens worth. [Not something I do routinely these days, but 
I often did this on a real server in front of me to run multiple processes / 
tail logs / perform CD writes or whatever in the background].

I only saw late DEC terminals and mostly Wyse DEC compatible terminals - as I
recall, most were either green text on black background or orange on amber 
background. A pure mono 80x24 screen would be nice h but you'd need decent 
contrast.

VT100 compatible escape sequences (which now allow you to set colours for 
prompts instead of blinking/inverse video) which is what every terminal 
emulator has advertised ever since you needed to _emulate_ a physical 
serial-connected hardware terminal, that's another thing, of course 
[When did you last use a vertical tab? Anyone? ].

As ever, Google [or DuckDuckGo or whatever] is your friend and a small amount
of personal research can save a lot of time, especially when the fault is 
seemingly intractable but you can tell other people clearly "I've already
tried the following. It didn't work and I've reverted the changes" or 
whatever.

Hope this helps, all best as ever,

Andy C.

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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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