Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

From	Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal
Date	2021-06-22 21:20 +0200
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On 23/6/21 2:39 am, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 02:27:04AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 23/6/21 1:42 am, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>> There's nothing in .bashrc which controls the terminal's interpretation
>>> of color escape sequences.  Or in bash, anywhere.
> 
>> Excerpt from .bashrc file:
>>
>> "
>>
>> # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
>> # case "$TERM" in
>> #    xterm-color|*-256color) color_prompt=yes;;
>> # esac
>>
>> # uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
>> # off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
>> # should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
>> #force_color_prompt=yes
> 
> All of that code is just for setting the shell's prompt.  It has nothing
> to do with how the terminal interprets color codes.
> 

Funnily enough, given what you contend, before I commented out the 
colouring in stuff, when running ls -lh, directory names were displayed 
in blue text, and, after I commented out the colouring in stuff, running 
ls -lh, the output was all displayed in black text.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..............

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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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