Adding more colors to terminal

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egy
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Adding more colors to terminal

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Greetings wonderful forum,

First post here! I am so far impressed with MX linux from only live demonstration (writing from it now!). I must say this is indeed an elegant mix of everything good. It's lightweight also, so that's a huge plus for me.

Quick question: I've completely uninstalled Lubuntu because my eyes weren't at ease with the terminal colors. The Xfce4 terminal colors almost look the same: bold and solid, with less degrees of colors. Is there a theme of some sort to "add more colors" to my terminal ? I've tried installing terminator, but it's still the same.


Kind Regards.

P.S: I am indeed thanksful to the developers and (active) maintainers :hug:. Fascinating mix!

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Re: Adding more colors to terminal

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Right click in a terminal window and click Preferences then on the "colors" tab. You can adjust element colors and there are predefined color presets..
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Re: Adding more colors to terminal

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MX is more GUI oriented than terminal oriented. But our sister distro, antiX, has a lot of terminal support. I use the urxvt terminal emulator. It has great support for customizing the ANSI escape sequence colors. For example here are the colors displayed by the "ansi-colors" program in a standard terminal emulator:
terminal-colors.png
Here is the same output in a uxrvt terminal emulator using the "sorbet" color scheme:
urxvt-colors.png
This is very easy to set up with rxvt-unicode Debian package and the urxvt-style program from antiX (I don't know which package it is in). To test the sorbet color scheme just run:

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urxvt-style sorbet
in your current terminal emulator. This will launch a new urxvt window with the sorbet color scheme. If you like what you see then run:

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urxvt-style sorbet save
which will do the same and also save the color scheme in your .Xresources file. There are many other options as well such as enabling tabs and changing the font size.
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Re: Adding more colors to terminal

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