i like emacs in terminal,but the blue color of mini buffer is hard to see clearly.
really need it,thanks for help!
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A:
If you can't stand your terminal's blue color, you can probably change it. The different terminal emulators have different tools for this, but most use X resources.
My own personal color choices for urxvt:
URxvt.background: #000000 URxvt.foreground: gray75 URxvt.color3: DarkGoldenrod URxvt.color4: RoyalBlue URxvt.color11: LightGoldenrod URxvt.color12: LightSteelBlue URxvt.color7: gray75 URxvt.colorBD: #ffffff URxvt.colorUL: LightSlateGrey URxvt.colorIT: SteelBlue URxvt.cursorColor: grey90 URxvt.highlightColor: grey25
But of course, your own terminal emulator of choice may have a different class (URxvt) or application (urxvt, not used in my example) name, and the resource names may be different as well. urxvt will use color names (from the server's rgb.txt file -- use xcolorsel(1) to see them in a handy application) or numbers, but other terminals may not be this flexible.
From my xterm(1) manpage, the colors and their numbers are:
0 black 1 red3 2 green3 3 yellow3 4 a customizable dark blue 5 magenta3 6 cyan3 7 gray90 8 gray30 9 red 10 green 11 yellow 12 a customizable light blue 13 magenta 14 cyan 15 white
If your terminal does use X resources, save your desired resources to a file (by convention named ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources) and use xrdb -merge <filename> to load your resources into the server. Then start your terminal again, and try it out.
If your terminal uses some other mechanism to configure color choices (perhaps it has a Preferences menu item or something similar), it will probably still have different colors listed somewhere, and you'll need to change colors 4 and 12 to change the blue color.
On the other hand, if you like the blue for everything except emacs, you can either try to get emacs to use a different color (no idea there, sorry), or you can run your terminal emulator with a different "class", so it will read different X resources. (xterm(1) has a -class parameter for this.)
sarnold
2010-07-03 09:38:13
thanks for your detail answer.i use LXDE terminal on mint linux.don't have the dir you said.it's better make emacs to change color.if cannot, your answer is a new option.
chenge
2010-07-03 09:57:22
Hrm, I'm not sure LXTerminal will let you pick other colors; it claims to be VTE based, and http://people.redhat.com/nalin/vte/html/vteterminal.html#VTE-TERMINAL-SET-COLORS has a description for how to change the color palette with no mentions of where it gets defaults, so I assume they must be changed programmatically. The LXTerminal screenshot on http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTerminal doesn't show a color-palette selector widget, so it might not be possible.Check the docs and hope for the best. :)
sarnold
2010-07-03 10:08:56
i find ~/.config/lxterminal/ have a config file, it really works.i have to change the bgcolor of terminal to white to display the emacs blue font. i really like the black terminal feeling.
chenge
2010-07-03 10:27:00
Ah, the price of minimalism: http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/LxTerminal "2. Support customizing foreground and background color" No mention of the whole color palette. Feel free to use any other terminal emulator, I suggest urxvt, but xterm, rxvt, aterm, wterm, Eterm, xfce4-terminal, xvt, mlterm, kterm, konsole, gnome-terminal are all popular choices, and most (if not all) will let you change color4 and color12. Or you can file a feature request with the LXDE team.
sarnold
2010-07-03 10:38:10
lxterminal has multi tab. others seems not.
chenge
2010-07-03 11:03:33