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by **Dan Jacobso** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

How do I adjust the hard to read situation of deep blue "highlighted" text
upon a black background? You often mention 'dircolors' but the documentation
mentions it only affects ls, and I see the man command, well, less, is affected
too.
I would like to brighten this individual color all across the board, I mean in
all text highlighting situations. [Seen at least in xterm in icewm on mandrake
7.2.]
By the way there's no icewm man page on mandrake 7.2.
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by **Robert Kieslin** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

> How do I adjust the hard to read situation of deep blue "highlighted" text
> upon a black background? You often mention 'dircolors' but the documentation
> mentions it only affects ls, and I see the man command, well, less, is affected
> too.
> I would like to brighten this individual color all across the board, I mean in
> all text highlighting situations. [Seen at least in xterm in icewm on mandrake
> 7.2.]

"unalias ls" returns colors to normal. Read the manual page for a
description of ls options.

Quote:> By the way there's no icewm man page on mandrake 7.2.

http://www.icewm.org/

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by **Colin Wats** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

>How do I adjust the hard to read situation of deep blue "highlighted"
>text upon a black background? You often mention 'dircolors' but the
>documentation mentions it only affects ls, and I see the man command,
>well, less, is affected too.
>I would like to brighten this individual color all across the board, I
>mean in all text highlighting situations. [Seen at least in xterm in
>icewm on mandrake 7.2.]

Use X resources; 'man xterm', 'man X', and 'man xrdb' will probably be
helpful here. Edit your ~/.Xresources (or possibly ~/.Xdefaults) file,
and add a line like 'XTerm*color4: steel blue', then 'xrdb -merge
~/.Xresources' or whatever. color4 corresponds to non-bold blue; color12
is bold blue. You can find a list of colour names in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt, or try the 'xcolorsel' tool.

Quote:>By the way there's no icewm man page on mandrake 7.2.

The man page in Debian was written for Debian, apparently. Perhaps
Mandrake should import it. Either way, file a bug with Mandrake.

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by **fcii** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

goto /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icewin/* and adjust values as desired. The config
file in icewm which addresses xterm is toolbar. If this doesn't give you
enough options try find xtermrc or xterm* to find the actual xterm config
file

> >How do I adjust the hard to read situation of deep blue "highlighted"
> >text upon a black background? You often mention 'dircolors' but the
> >documentation mentions it only affects ls, and I see the man command,
> >well, less, is affected too.
> >I would like to brighten this individual color all across the board, I
> >mean in all text highlighting situations. [Seen at least in xterm in
> >icewm on mandrake 7.2.]

> Use X resources; 'man xterm', 'man X', and 'man xrdb' will probably be
> helpful here. Edit your ~/.Xresources (or possibly ~/.Xdefaults) file,
> and add a line like 'XTerm*color4: steel blue', then 'xrdb -merge
> ~/.Xresources' or whatever. color4 corresponds to non-bold blue; color12
> is bold blue. You can find a list of colour names in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt, or try the 'xcolorsel' tool.

> >By the way there's no icewm man page on mandrake 7.2.

> The man page in Debian was written for Debian, apparently. Perhaps
> Mandrake should import it. Either way, file a bug with Mandrake.

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> "DRIVE LETTERS SUCK ROTTING WALRUSES THROUGH A LEAKY OIL PIPELINE!"
> - Peter da Silva, scary.devil.monastery

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hard to read situation of deep blue "highlighted" text upon a black background

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hard to read situation of deep blue "highlighted" text upon a black background

hard to read situation of deep blue "highlighted" text upon a black background

hard to read situation of deep blue "highlighted" text upon a black background