 |
Puppy Linux Discussion Forum Puppy HOME page : puppylinux.com "THE" alternative forum : puppylinux.info
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in|
The time now is Sun 26 May 2013, 02:49 All times are UTC - 4 |
 Forum index » House Training » Beginners Help ( Start Here) |
|
How do you customize rxvt?
Moderators: Flash, Ian, JohnMurga |
 
|
View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Page 1 of 2 [21 Posts] | Goto page: 1, 2 Next |
| Author | Message | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
djnrempel
Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 34 |
I want to change the colours in rxvt - can anyone tell me how to do that? |
||||||||
|
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
alienjeff
 Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 2290 Location: Winsted, CT - USA |
rxvt --help man rxvt _________________ hangout: ##arch-ftw on irc.freenode.net diversion: http://alienjeff.net - visit The Fringe quote: "The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people." - Thomas Hooker |
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
DaveS
 Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK |
If you add this text under the 'savelines' entry in /root/.Xdefaults the colours will change to those you specify. Mine is for black background, white text
_________________ Spup Frugal HD and USB Root forever! |
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
djnrempel
Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 34 |
Thanks! |
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
[MOB]Trip
Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Posts: 31 Location: same shit world u live in. |
cool 
_________________ 
 |
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
Gorilla no baka
 Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 234 Location: UK |
And don`t forget... Count your blessings...  !!!
_________________ 
I'M IN MY OWN WORLD. IT'S OK, THEY KNOW ME HERE..!!! |
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
djnrempel
Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 34 |
As the 'computer guy' in my own office, I can identify with the impatience behind a "RTFM" response like this. And I generally do try to search for an answer before I ask others for help. In this case however, google did not produce anything. Perhaps I didn't use the right search terms.. rxvt --help produces a list of options, but does not tell you where to set them. man rxvt leads to a web page where the word "Manual" is not an active link, though it looks like it should be. I clicked on the "New Site" link which brought me to sf.net, clicked on "Support", only to be told that "Unfortunately, this project hasn't indicated the best way to get help." But now, because I asked, we have a handy thread that others have already found, searching for the same answer I was. All that is to say: yes, I know I should RTFM, but in this case "TFM" did not get me anywhere. /off-topic I now am using Dave's config, except I made my text green, because I like it to look really old-school. Well, maybe it should be amber in that case. |
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
djnrempel
Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 34 |
This page gives useful documentation of the options displayed by rxvt --help: http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/rxvt1.html Through this, I found three more options I want to tweak:
The geometry option makes the window open with 65 lines of space - so when you type something like rxvt --help, you can actually see most of the output at once. title lets me have the window named the much friendlier "consolepup" instead of "rxvt" And scrollBar_floating removes the "trough" from the scrollbar, which looks nicer IMO. I also changed the scrollbar color to grey, instead of having a grey trough with a black scrollbar as before. This was confusing, because it looked like the grey trough was the scroll bar, because the black scrollbar just looked like more background. Here's my complete .Xdefaults file. The top section is the one's I've played with, the bottom section I'm not sure how to work:
Now I'd just like to tweak the colours output by the ls command. Maybe that's set in options for 'ls'? |
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
DaveS
Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK |
I like black backgrounds because it makes the command line look scary 
I THINK you can use a Hex colour here too, so try menu>graphic>gtcolorchooser to get exactly the colour you want. As for searching, use this (bookmark it), a brilliant way to search this forum http://wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html _________________ Spup Frugal HD and USB Root forever! |
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
DaveS
Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK |
Double post _________________ Spup Frugal HD and USB Root forever! |
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
djnrempel
Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 34 |
I'm running Puppies 4.3.1 which has Firefox 3.5.2 with Murga forum search in the search box - that would produce the same results, no? |
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
djnrempel
Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 34 |
Okay, LS_colors explained explains the options. To set them, add this to ~/.bashrc:
I got an error when I inserted spaces, so don't do that. Note that 0 is the default color. For quick reference, the codes are:
And the colours are:
|
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
jangirke
Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 1 |
puppy linux rxvt configure prompt 4.3.1 Do You know how to set up the promt to show the directory I am at? |
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
trapster
 Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Maine, USA |
Try this in your /root/.bashrc file:
and this in your /root/.Xdefaults file:
_________________ trapster Maine, USA Asus eeepc 1005HA PU1X-BK Frugal install:Puppeee4.31 + 1.0, Puppy4.10 + Lupu52 Currently using Puppeee-1.0 AND lupu52 w/ fluxbox |
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
Béèm
 Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Posts: 11782 Location: Brussels IBM Thinkpad R40, 256MB, 20GB, WiFi ipw2100. Frugal Lin'N'Win |
Cool, trapster. In dpup the part of .Xdefaults was already there. But still a question. How can I get the time in 24 hour format? _________________ Time savers: Find packages in a snap and install using Puppy Package Manager (Menu). Consult Wikka Use peppyy's puppysearch |
||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
How do you customize rxvt?
Just a line for Google| Page 1 of 2 [21 Posts] | Goto page: 1, 2 Next |
|
|
View previous topic :: View next topic |
|
Forum index » House Training » Beginners Help ( Start Here) |
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You cannot attach files in this forum You can download files in this forum |
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group