Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 11:40:01AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann escreveu: > > Hi, > > > > > What we want to have is to have a set of distinctive colors - just > > > two (background, foreground) colors are not enough - we also need > > > colors to highlight certain information - we need 5-6 colors for the > > > output to be maximally expressive. Is there a canonical way to handle > > > that while still adapting to user preferences automatically by taking > > > background/foreground color scheme of the xterm into account? > > > > > I suspect to fix the worst of the fallout we could add some logic to > > > detect low contrast combinations (too low color distance) and fall > > > back to the foreground/background colors in that case. > > > > As far I know it is pretty much impossible to figure the > > foreground/background colors of the terminal you are running on. You > > Glad to hear that, I thought I hadn't researched that much (I did). Hope > somebody appears and tell us how it is done :-) In xterm, '\e]10;?\e\\' and '\e]11;?\e\\' will report the colors, e.g.: #!/bin/bash read -s -r -d \\ -p `printf '\e]10;?\e\\'` -t 1 fg [ $? -ne 0 ] && fg="no response" echo "foreground: $fg" | cat -v read -s -r -d \\ -p `printf '\e]11;?\e\\'` -t 1 bg [ $? -ne 0 ] && bg="no response" echo "background: $bg" | cat -v -jim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
