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kristian

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From: Norway

Registered: 2005-06-03

Posts: 24

Starting daemons from a white terminal window

I get white text on white background. Witch will make this unreadable:

# /etc/rc.d/slimserver restart
:: Stopping SlimServer                 [DONE]                                                                                                         
:: Starting SlimServer                 [DONE]

It's anoying, and sounds like a stupid bug to me. Should be easy to fix(?)

This was with konsole.

Last edited by kristian (2007-05-04 16:51:49)

harlekin

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-13

Posts: 408

Re: Starting daemons from a white terminal window

This is not a bug of arch's functions.

Those scripts use the predefined colors from your terminal. How you can configure them will be documented in your terminal's manpage.

For example urxvt use this format in your ~/.Xdefaults:
urxvt*color01: #ffffffff

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bwalk

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 177

Re: Starting daemons from a white terminal window

You can change the colors in /etc/rc.d/functions but it gets overwritten in an update of initscripts. Maybe it should be configurable or the color scheme should be rearranged.

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: Starting daemons from a white terminal window

You can change the colors by editing /etc/rc.d/functions and changing the \033[1;31(<that number)m under "# colors:"

I agree the script should change colors automatically based on the colors of the terminal if such a thing is possible & feasable.

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pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: Starting daemons from a white terminal window

stupid bug

Chill man. It's up to _you_ to customize your konsole appearance. It's not arch initscripts job to adjust colors to every terminal known to man.
Settings menu > Schema > ...
Settings menu > Save as default.

[edit]did you even bother to check the settings menu out?[/edit]

Last edited by pelle.k (2007-05-04 19:32:16)

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kristian

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From: Norway

Registered: 2005-06-03

Posts: 24

Re: Starting daemons from a white terminal window

Yes I have. The text from the initscript is white no matter what colorscheme I chose (in konsole).

pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: Starting daemons from a white terminal window

The text from the initscript is white no matter what colorscheme I chose (in konsole).

Yes, and as I said, It's not arch initscripts job to adjust colors to every terminal known to man. it's not a bug. It's terminal emulator specific. My advice applies to gnome-terminal, xfce terminal and xterm as well. All these terminal have different defaults, so you have to apply your preferences to them. Changing those settings by default go aginst arch:s philosophy to deliver packages mostly untouched and vanilla. But you, yourself, can change the background to black / text to white, and that solves the problem.

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bwalk

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 177

Re: Starting daemons from a white terminal window

That's wrong pelle.k. I _want_ a white background and other programs depend on a sane color scheme in my terminal. "\033[0;31m" is supposed to be red and some programms use "\033[0;31m" as a warning color and that should be red. So I need to urxvt*color1 to something red otherwise I have to think what color was what in what program and that is plain stupid.

No, I would not say it is a bug but it would be nice if the color scheme could rearranged or at least be customized.

pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: Starting daemons from a white terminal window

As status messages use a modified white, and thus break standard text color, i'm prepared to give up my reasoning. I'm sorry for being stubborn.
Now that i think of it, standard background and text color are mostly either black or white, so locking status messages to a modified white will not fit a white/black profile, but a black/white profile. That is kind of stupid, i agree.

_if_ status messages would be set to standard text color, they would fit a white background with black text in konsole (as an example), since they inherit black as color.
So maybe it's not a bug, but an annoyance.

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phrakture

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Re: Starting daemons from a white terminal window

The fact that the arch init scripts use "white" for text color is not at issue here.  My terminal is setup so I can read "black" text on a black bg, you could easily do the same for yours.  If this is unacceptable, feel free to submit a patch to the bug tracker.  And no, a patch that simply changes the colors to fit your terminal scheme is not what I mean - patch the functions to support configurable colors.

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