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flbr

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Color issues with text mode in terminal
« on: November 03, 2020, 04:57:45 pm »
(I'm not sure if this is the most appropriate place to ask this, so let me know if I should move this somewhere else)

When I run df in text mode it uses the colors for my terminal (set by pywal), and not colors from the init file. Is there a way to change this? For some background I'm running Manjaro i3.

Any help would be very much appreciated!
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Re: Color issues with text mode in terminal
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2020, 07:23:14 am »
Quote from: flbr on November 03, 2020, 04:57:45 pm
(I'm not sure if this is the most appropriate place to ask this, so let me know if I should move this somewhere else)

When I run df in text mode it uses the colors for my terminal (set by pywal), and not colors from the init file. Is there a way to change this? For some background I'm running Manjaro i3.
I'm pretty sure that behavior is "normal" - if you want to modify your terminal's palette to match the RGB values in init.txt, you'll need to do it yourself (using whatever technique "pywal" uses).
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Re: Color issues with text mode in terminal
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2020, 12:00:09 pm »
I would strongly suspect that the game is just giving out the standard SGR escape sequences to set the colours, so no actual RGB colour data (or even like an xterm-256 value) is actually being given to your terminal in the first place, meaning that there's no way for the terminal to know what specific colours the game means.
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Re: Color issues with text mode in terminal
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2020, 12:20:47 pm »
Quote from: Maximum Spin on November 04, 2020, 12:00:09 pm
I would strongly suspect that the game is just giving out the standard SGR escape sequences to set the colours, so no actual RGB colour data (or even like an xterm-256 value) is actually being given to your terminal in the first place, meaning that there's no way for the terminal to know what specific colours the game means.
Looking at the source code for libgraphics (included in the "g_src" subdirectory of the Linux version), the TEXT mode uses libncurses[w] for all output, which might work differently depending on your terminal emulator.
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Re: Color issues with text mode in terminal
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2020, 11:28:43 pm »
Hmm, okay, thank you for your help! I'll probably figure out how to deal with pywal, but as that isn't related to df, I'll leave this here
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Re: Color issues with text mode in terminal
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2020, 12:26:56 am »
I would try it in a real xterm, and see what it does.  If xterm also uses the default terminal colours, and not the df colours, then I would conclude that df doesn't support custom colours in text mode.  But if xterm uses the df colours, then I would conclude that the problem is something with pywal...
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