Chris Green wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:53:35PM +0000, beneboy wrote:
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 4:52 pm, Dennis Dryden wrote:
Assuming you are using bash:
rjk$ cat .inputrc set bell-style none
Cool ive been wondering about this but have been too lazy to ask ALUG or Google. =-) Any one got a good link about adding color to bash?
well, I think most distros do this already but putting 'alias ls="ls --color=always" in the appropriate bash rc file will make some pretty colours appear whenever you type 'ls'.
Yes, and it really gets up my nose! :-) The first thing I do after installing a new version of Linux is to turn off that LS colour highlighting. Apart from anything else on anything but a dark background some of the colours are all but illegible.
The latest(ish) verson of morphix (or knoppix, I forget) displays an image in the background of the terminal, behind all the text, which looks quite nice. I'll be damned if I know how to do it though.
and the gentoo liveCD.
its a frame-buffer background image, specified in the kernel or grub i think for a virtual terminal. under X, most terminal emulators do backgrounds my favorite Eterm, does a random, sensibly-dark background image, or my favorite, can go transparent and show the desktop background (darkened) through it. Given my desktop background is a current (live) view of the world complete with current clouds and sattelite tracks and horizons on it, (xplanetbg) this looks quite nice.
That sounds like a good recipe for making text illegible too! Why do people do it? The whole point of a good terminal window is to make the text as legible as possible. Maybe people don't use text mode terminal windows as much as they used to.
Or get some coloured transparent plastic and stick it to your screen.
Probably just as effective at making things illegible! :-)