Hello, Samuel Wales, le lun. 03 avril 2023 17:42:24 -0700, a ecrit: > in various places, such as debconf, there is a tui in debian that is > blue, grey, and red, with black text. > > e.g. dpkg-reconfigure sometimes uses it. i have a lot of trouble with > blue and some trouble with the brightness of the grey, but still want > contrast. can i change these colors to somethign that works better > for me? e.g. orange on black.
Yes, you can tune colors with the NEWT_COLORS environment variable, e.g. 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' > urxvt -fn "xft:bitstream vera sans mono:pixelsize=32" \ > -background '#cd8000' > > this is color-backward from what i want Then use urxvt -fn "xft:bitstream vera sans mono:pixelsize=32" -foreground '#cd8000' > also the font is a bit too small for me. idk where find a number to > substitute for 32. You can pick up whatever number you like, since mono is a vector font. > also there is a grey border on the left that does not > go away with -bl and similar options. It is the scrollbar, you can turn it off with -sb or +sb > the accessibility issues include the white is much much too bright. > prefer orange on black or so. You can use setterm -foreground yellow that will show up as orange. > i can't always get legibly large fonts. You can tune font size with dpkg-reconfigure console-setup: use a Terminus font to get access to the 16x32 size. > i can't make the blinking cursor into a filled red block cursor > permanently. 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 Samuel
