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RayOfLight
Tux's lil' helper
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 Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:07 pm Post subject: is Konsole unusable (using less) on a new fresh install? |
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I'm dissapointed in my linux usability when I do not spend my time tweaking from the start/day1.
I attach a screenshot of my Konsole terminal so you can feel my pain:
https://imgur.com/a/cMOLjgF
I CANNOT READ the dark blue tones, and I don't know how I can change them, has this happened to anybody of you? how do you cope with this?
It did not happen to me 10yrs ago, wtf. |
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alamahant
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| Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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Plz change color theme from Konsole settings or create a new profile with a different color theme.
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steve_v
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Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:02 pm Post subject: Re: is Konsole unusable (using less) on a new fresh install? |
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Yeah, the default "Breeze" konsole colour scheme mangles everything. But it's all grey and pastel and "modern", so... Uhh, 
For color schemes in a TTY, check out ttyscheme.
Konsole hidden feature: If you cat out that script, then hover the mouse cursor over the codes in the COLORS= section, you get a preview as a tooltip. 
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sam_
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| You can also try LESSCOLOR=no as IMO the lesspipe colours aren't great either. |
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acmondor
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Location: Canadian Prairies
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2024 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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I know this is a bit late, but in case anyone is interested here a way to improve the colors.
lesspipe uses pygmentize from dev-python/pygments and one can change the colors produced by setting the LESSCOLORIZER env var to something like this:
| Code: | | LESSCOLORIZER="pygmentize -O style=emacs" |
To see available styles run:
| Code: | | pygmentize -L | less |
From what I've found so far, the styles emacs, perldoc, trac, and zenburn are much more readable than the default.
See /usr/bin/lesspipe (a bash script) or lesspipe --help for more details.
One last thing, pygmentize colorizes files using different lexers (also shown in the -L output mentioned earlier) and by default it selects the lexer based on the file's name. This leads to somewhat confusing results. For example, a bash script without an extension, like /usr/bin/lesspipe, won't be colorized. There is a -g that can be used with pygmentize to have it look into files to determine their type. That workes for files like /usr/bin/lesspipe with #!/bin/bash on the first line, but in other files where that's not the case, for example /etc/profile, it picks the wrong lexer and produces very bad coloring. |
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