Installation and
1.3 Using Color
1.3 Using Color
You can control the terminals display colors. You may choose color settings to match your software, to emulate another terminal, or to suit your preference. Depending on the settings you choose, for each session you can assign colors for various text uses and defined a map of 16 colors (8 text and 8 background) from a larger palette of 4096 colors. Changes in color selections become visible upon entering new text and when the screen is refreshed.
If you want to . . . | From the Color submenu in | |||||||
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Let your application specify | Select color mode |
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text colors by using ANSI SGR | Use Assign colors . . . |
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Display text attributes (bold, | Select color mode |
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reverse, blink, and underline) | Then, choose Alternate text colors . . . to | |||||||
in different colors | assign colors to each combination. | |||||||
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Emulate WYSE 325 color | ASCII color mode |
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Emulate the appearance of a | ASCII color mode |
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monochrome ASCII terminal | ||
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