color change

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Hello,

How to change command interpreter’s font color?

Darius

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hello,

How to change command interpreter’s font color?

I mean is there a way to change shell’s background and (or) foreground
color. I din’t find any way to do that, but I saw QNX 4 system with orange
fornt on black background.

Darius

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Darius <alpha_byte@safe-mail.net> wrote:

hello,

How to change command interpreter’s font color?

I mean is there a way to change shell’s background and (or) foreground
color. I din’t find any way to do that, but I saw QNX 4 system with orange
fornt on black background.

I don’t think there’s a way to change the colours in a Neutrino console, but
you can change them in a pterm (if you’re using Photon). See the docs for
pterm in the Utilities Reference.

Steve Reid stever@qnx.com
TechPubs (Technical Publications)
QNX Software Systems

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“Steve Reid” <stever@sreid.ott.qnx.com> wrote in message
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I don’t think there’s a way to change the colours in a Neutrino console,
but
you can change them in a pterm (if you’re using Photon). See the docs for
pterm in the Utilities Reference.

Actually, there are three ways to change the colours in a pterm, and one of
them should work in a console:

  • You can set up a palette file to specify the exact RGB values pterm uses
    for its 16 colours. But I wouldn’t recommend using it to make drastic
    changes (i.e. making colour 0 green instead of black and colour 15 blue
    instead of white), because that may make programs that use colours look
    wierd.

  • You can run your pterm with the -K option to specify the foreground and
    background colours at startup. If you then save the configuration (by
    clicking on Done in the Properties dialog), the colours will be saved and
    you won’t have to keep specifying the -K option.

  • You can use the “Set and Save foreground/background color” escape
    sequences to change the colours. (They save the colours for the current
    session only – the purpose of the “saved” set of colours is to allow
    programs that use colours to restore the saved colours with a simple escape
    sequence). This method works both in a pterm and in a console, and the
    escape sequences are described in the devc-con helpviewer page. (If you run
    your pterms in the old “qnx” terminal emulation, the escape sequences are
    different – you can find them in the QNX4 Dev.con docs. Or just use the -K
    option instead.)