I use two dropdown terminals in parallel: Yakuake and Guake. When using Guake, the colors are way too dark, which makes much of the colored text unreadable because of insufficient contrast. The problem is most severe when displaying color #4 (dark blue) on black background (which is the default color ls displays directories with) or in Midnight Commander (default theme,
Tag: colors
Colorizing echo works in Solaris but doesn’t work in Linux
I have 2 different servers where I log in with same network user and run the same script. One is Solaris and another is Linux. Sample echo line from the script works differently on those servers: In Solaris -> it displays the text “auto update” correctly in green In Linux -> it displays the text incorrectly and with no color
Script to plot multiple graphs in gnuplot
I try to write a script which will be executed by the shell to use several txt-files in a directory to plot multiple lines in a graph with gnuplot. So if I type in the command for one picture, the results are as imagined. Here you can see the command: Now my Script looks like this: The script edits every
Is it possible to make stdout and stderr output be of different colors in XTerm or Konsole?
Is it even achievable? I would like the output from a command’s stderr to be rendered in a different color than stdout (for example, in red). I need such a modification to work with the Bash shell in the Konsole, XTerm, or GNOME Terminal terminal emulators on Linux. Answer Here’s a solution that combines some of the good ideas already