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Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal



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.


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