Re: colors and fonts of debconf etc., a suitable xterm, vt
great answers thank you. more below.
On 4/4/23, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> export NEWT_COLORS='root=,black roottext=white,black window=,black
> textbox=white,black border=white,black button=white,black
> checkbox=white,black listbox=white,black'
still working on this but looks possible.
urxvt peculiarities but progress. having trouble pasting into it as i
cannot push a scroll wheel well. copying from it. maximizing on
launch. kb scroll. wonder if screen or tmux could improve some of
that. i will have to try to figure out how to search output text,
stop output. not sure yet to set ansi colors.
> setterm -foreground yellow
>
> that will show up as orange.
where do i put this? .profile ends up having it work exactly once in
an echo satement after doing it. need precmd?
> You can tune font size with dpkg-reconfigure console-setup: use a
> Terminus font to get access to the 16x32 size.
i had set that and it's still a bit small. but it is almost large enough.
> You can use
>
> echo 0 > /sys/devices/virtual/graphics/fbcon/cursor_blink
>
> to avoid the blink, and
>
> tput cvvis
>
> to make it a block. You can stuff the former in /etc/rc.local and th
> latter in your .bash_profile
this is a great help. for a bit i ended up with blinking in urxvt but
rebooting fixed that.
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