Customizing The Terminal

[ShiroiKuma]

Can I customize the GPE terminal? I mean color scheme mostly. the black on white I don't like.

The only thing I've found is Terminal font in Look & Feel settings, but it doesn't even seem to affect the terminal font, unless you have to reboot to make the changes felt.

What about the colors?

And can I open a number of tabs? Or do I have to run sereval terminal instances?

[speculatrix]

I too would like this... the default font is way too small.. despite the look'n'feel control panel setting, it doesn't seem to make any difference!

[lardman]

You need to log out/reboot for the terminal size to change.


Si

[ShiroiKuma]

You need to log out/reboot for the terminal size to change.
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How about the color scheme, i.e. make it green on black and so?

[koen]

You need to log out/reboot for the terminal size to change.
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How about the color scheme, i.e. make it green on black and so?
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vi ~/.Xdefaults

[asm-nai]

You need to log out/reboot for the terminal size to change.
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How about the color scheme, i.e. make it green on black and so?
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You edit your .Xdefaults and add the following descriptions.

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Rxvt*background: black
Rxvt*foreground: green
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Thank you.

[jam13]

Why does rxvt launch as a VT100 terminal by default? Was this a deliberate choice? Colour terminal support would be nice.

[jam13]

Why does rxvt launch as a VT100 terminal by default? Was this a deliberate choice? Colour terminal support would be nice.
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My mistake - it's only the root terminal that comes up as VT100.

The reason I mentioned it was that when you run kismet from a root terminal it comes up monochrome. But now that I've checked, when you run it from a normal terminal (after su) then it comes up in colour.

[jam13]

In case anyone is interested, there is a "thickness" option for rxvt that controls the width of the scrollbar. I've found that setting it to 20 produces something that I can actually get hold of with the stylus!

[speculatrix]

In case anyone is interested, there is a "thickness" option for rxvt that controls the width of the scrollbar. I've found that setting it to 20 produces something that I can actually get hold of with the stylus!
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when you've perfected it, could you post your config file as it sounds like you've sorted out all the things that have annoyed me!

[jam13]

In case anyone is interested, there is a "thickness" option for rxvt that controls the width of the scrollbar. I've found that setting it to 20 produces something that I can actually get hold of with the stylus!
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when you've perfected it, could you post your config file as it sounds like you've sorted out all the things that have annoyed me!
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Not perfected, but this is my .Xdefaults file at the moment:

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Rxvt*font: xft:Mono:pixelsize=14
Rxvt*reverseVideo: true
Rxvt*scrollColor: grey
Rxvt*troughColor: grey60
Rxvt*thickness: 20This increases the font size to something more readable, sets the display to white on black, and changes the colour and size of the scrollbar. Need to restart X after making changes of course.