[solved] Coloring scheme/theme terms

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[solved] Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by nassausky » Wed May 06, 2015 1:18 pm

I haven't worked with coloring terms too much. I love linuxbbq-chickenwings but can't figure out how to change the colors in the terminal. I tried looking for DOCs but i just needed a little bump forward. A couple steps then I can be on the go..

Any suggestions. I wanted brighter colors. chickenwings has all greyscale and not sure how to change that.

Thanks
Last edited by ivanovnegro on Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:24 am, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: solved, it was about time

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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by dkeg » Wed May 06, 2015 2:15 pm

Hi nassuasky. Welcome. In a terminal type

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dkeger
From that you will see a huge list of colors to choose from. Off hand I cannot think any except for 'colorbar' that is bright. Experiment.
Of course you can use paletter with a bright wall and high contrasts to produce your own colorscheme!
And please, take a few minutes to make an intro thread. Tell us a bit about yourself. And finally, once you get your env all sorted, post a scrot!

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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Thu May 07, 2015 12:30 pm

I suggest what Dkeg just said, it is the easiest way and automatic otherwise you can play for yourself with your .Xresources.
If you need help on this, just say so.

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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by machinebacon » Thu May 07, 2015 12:34 pm

Just a little in-depth info about the 'dkeger' script:

- it checks the directory named ~/xcolors/xcolor_code/ and lists all available files there
- the user chooses one of these schemes by name
- the ~/.Xresources file will then be linked to the color scheme
- the user can then open a new terminal and enjoy the new colors
- if you want more (or own) terminal colors, create these inside of ~/xcolors/xcolor_code/ and give them names that are not used yet

You can create color schemes from an image, for example you have a wallpaper named ~/wet_cat.png you run

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paletter ~/wet_cat.png > ~/xcolors/xcolor_code/wetcat
#or
paletterx ~/wet_cat.png > ~/xcolors/xcolor_code/wetcat
and wait a minute or two, depending on the size of the photo. Then run

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dkeger
and enter 'wetcat'. When dkeger has finished its work, open a new terminal. Check your new creation by testing with:

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env-info
colorview
# for color highlighting:
nano ~/.xinitrc
..gnutella..

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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by nassausky » Thu May 07, 2015 3:26 pm

Thanks, that sounds real nice. I tried both

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paletter ~/wet_cat.png > ~/xcolors/xcolor_code/wetcat
#or
paletterx ~/wet_cat.png > ~/xcolors/xcolor_code/wetcat
and both I got errors:

/usr/local/bin/paletter: line 9: convert: command not found

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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by machinebacon » Thu May 07, 2015 3:36 pm

Oh sure,

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sudo apt-get install imagemagick
:) sorry!
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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by nassausky » Thu May 07, 2015 5:14 pm

Thanks trying to download it now. It's strange the last few apt-get updates have been slow and have been missing a couple files and so is this. It's downloading at a snail pace.. Wonder why.

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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by machinebacon » Thu May 07, 2015 5:32 pm

Imagemagick is not added anymore on recent releases because it's quite a big one and not really 'super-needed' for a start.

Be careful with the upgrades, though - in the last 2 days it has been shaky at Sid, the video drivers might get removed when you do a dist-upgrade now. You /can/ safely do 'upd' only (sudo apt-get update) and then install imagemagick.

By the way, you can choose a mirror closer to you:

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sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
The Debian mirror, for example, has a country code in it, like

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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
where 'us' is the USA. [1] Where are you located?

Sometimes the servers can be really slow, so if a few files cannot be retrieved, don't care too much and retry a few hours later. You can try to install

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ins imagemagick
and if it doesn't work, blame it on the mirror. In the mean time, run

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dkeger
and play around with what we have there :)


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[1] See available mirror locations here: https://www.debian.org/mirror/list -- if you change the mirror, remember to run 'sudo apt-get update' or simply 'upd'
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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by nassausky » Thu May 07, 2015 7:18 pm

Excellent that's good to know thanks.

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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu May 07, 2015 7:41 pm

this is quite fun:
http://benohead.com/debian-using-apt-sp ... ve-mirror/

results often not what was expected...
(internal network deb mirror slower than a belgium uni - for example)
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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by machinebacon » Thu May 07, 2015 7:52 pm

^ excellent, I never heard of this before, only netselect. Thanks wux!
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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by chorizo » Thu Jun 30, 2016 2:16 am

Hi, I installed the Monkeys release with wmfs yesterday and did a dist-upgrade.

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$ uname -a Linux wmfs 4.2.0-trunk-586 #1 Debian 4.2-1~exp1 (2015-08-31) i686 GNU/Linux
My question is about dkeger It works when running Monkeys live, but after install dkeger doesn't work. It didn't work before the dist-upgrade either.
Live:
Image
Installed:
Image

I don't know well how dkeger is configured, but I've compared live files with installed files: .fbselect; .Xresources_colors; .xcolorselect.
After running dkeger in installed Monkeys:
  • .fbselect: doesn't write the choosen color scheme name.
    .Xresources_colors: writes choosen color scheme
    .xcolorselect: doesn't write color scheme name
Imagemagick is installed.
In the file .Xresources I've put: 'include /home/mcx/.Xresources_colors'(without parenthesis).
The paletterx script works creating the color scheme, but not dkeger then.
I edited the listed files manualy coping them as they are in live, but colors didn't change.

I'm sure it's something very simple to solve; but I can't find it out.

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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by machinebacon » Thu Jun 30, 2016 1:11 pm

just to be sure, can you show us the output of

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cat ~/.Xresources
just asking, because there should be a # before the include ;)
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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by chorizo » Thu Jun 30, 2016 8:48 pm

machinebacon wrote:just to be sure, can you show us the output of

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cat ~/.Xresources
just asking, because there should be a # before the include ;)
You are right, I had deleted the # and put it back. Dkeger not working yet.

My .Xresources
http://pasted.co/7db69ecb

Error output when running dkeger and choosing for example 'numixdarkest':

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Coping numixdarkest to /home/mcx/.Xresources_colors
/home/mcx/.Xresources:25:10: error #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
#include /home/mcx/.Xresources_colors
I don't understand what filename #include expects apart of .Xresources_colors

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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by pidsley » Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:00 am

chorizo wrote:

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Coping numixdarkest to /home/mcx/.Xresources_colors
/home/mcx/.Xresources:25:10: error #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
#include /home/mcx/.Xresources_colors
I don't understand what filename #include expects apart of .Xresources_colors
The error message (expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>) is pretty clear.

You have this:

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#include /home/mcx/.Xresources_colors
Try this:

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#include "/home/mcx/.Xresources_colors"
or this:

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#include </home/mcx/.Xresources_colors>

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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by chorizo » Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:38 am

Solved! It was so simple that I'm ashamed.
What a satisfaction to have dark terminals again. Thanks a lot.

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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:23 am

Then let me mark it solved finally.

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Re: Coloring scheme/theme terms

Unread post by chorizo » Fri Jul 01, 2016 2:17 am

ivanovnegro wrote:Then let me mark it solved finally.
Yes, of course. Thank you.

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