customize terminal

I am aware about the .dialogrc option to change the color form_text_color = (WHITE,CYAN,ON) But where can I change the value of CYAN or add my own colors ? In the man page of dialog, I see : Is there a link between this color and the kern.vt.color.<colornum>.rgb="<colorspec>" (As I see vt...

I have problems getting any colors to work in X11 terminals or in my editor of choice (kakoune) when using rgb values for the color definition. As an example, part of my lxterminal configuration reads; palette_color_3=rgb(196,160,0) On my Linux machine the corresponding item is colored...

Hello all! Iv been trying to change my bash shell prompt. The full path name I find is to cumbersome. I know how and what to change ( \W ) But I am not able to find the .bashrc file. Iv tried looking around the file system to no avail no gui makes it a bit harder but oh well. I looked through...

I have installed FreeBSD 12.1 as a VM in virtualbox which uses VMSVGA video driver. I have configured the `/usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware` and uses `vt`. I have specified `Depth 24` as color depth in the xorg.conf settings. I use a Dell XPS 15 9570. kern.vty=vt...

When I start first boot install, I have trouble with the small fonts. Is there a way to enlarge the font?

I've been struggling for a long time with the default color palette of vt terminal especially in midnight commander. Today i had some free time to look at this and finally i manage to set up the default "dos" color palette from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code The settings...

When I connecting to the system remotely using SSH, the characters of the exited terminal program are still displayed on the screen. For example, when I visit system by using SSH, after I exit "htop" or "nano", characters of htop/nano are still on the screen. On OpenBSD or Linux, when you exit a...

hi guys I want modify putty connect message。 Can someone assist me with the direction of the change? I hope not to enter the account number login as: admin Using keyboard-interactive authentication. Password for admin @ FreeBSD01: "Using keyboard-interactive authentication." <---- This prompt...

In FreeBSD 12.1 backspace in terminal only deletes one byte of multi-byte character. For example: # cat > /tmp/test tы<backspace>t # cat /tmp/test t�t # hexdump -C /tmp/test 74 d1 74 0a Where 'ы' is a Russian letter (D18B in hexadecimal form). You may see that only second byte of multi-byte...

The font size in a few places is too small: - The terminal. This doesn't happen with OpenBSD or with Linux, the default font size there is useful from the start. - Some websites that do not set font size and use the default (eg duckduckgo) display smaller text, using a browser that also doesn't...

I've installed x11/xfce4-terminal numerous times as it's my preferred terminal emulator, but I do have a problem on one system... When I go to Edit -> Preferences -> Colors and then click on Text color: the application closes altogether without any msg. Anyone know what might be causing this...

Remember those days computers were shell-only environment with commands you could run? Background was restricted to black unless you had done some config which were rarely done in PCs. But after graphic cards came in to market OS developers started to add graphical GUI in their production...

Hi: When I look at a terminal and type ls /dev/ I get file names alright but directory have and orange background thats makes it hard to read. Is there a way to change the color or stop the coloring around directories. I know these are devices and what I find hard to see are thing like da0...

Hello there, I'm writing this topic because I didn't find the answer about my issue. I'm currently running FreeBSD 12.0, I'm using dwm as window manager (and assistant to the regional manager) and my favorite shell is ZSH. I'm using ZSH at work, on my Linux PC, Solus Linux to be precise, and it...

I tried looking in how to load a separate configuration file, so I could use one for a dark background, and another for a white background for the same user. I want a dark prompt for xterm, which has a white background, and a yellow prompt for the dark tinted transparent rxvt-unicode...

Hello everyone, Please can someone help with specific instructions on how I can recompile my kernel to use the syscons driver in FreeBSD 12? I have installed FreeBSD 12 on a new laptop. At the moment I don't want or need Xorg etc. I just need a console that I can see! The default font is so...

So let me preface this by saying that it's almost my birthday! :) Yay! :D So anyway, Mom is getting me a 2TB Hard Drive for my HP EliteBook 8470p, and I was wondering how to fix the skewed text during Boot in FreeBSD. :) I did some reading, and found out it's a problem with certain HP models...

I've run into a conundrum. I can use option "3. Escape to loader prompt" at the boot menu and enter either gop set 12 (it's valid) or mode 3 (also valid), and it will change the resolution. But if I add either gop set 12 or mode 3 (tested both, individually) to /boot/loader.rc.local , then...

Hello guys, please look at the following date commands. It looks like KornShell uses its own application. Built in? And why? Any idea? It appeared after this shell has been updated to ksh93-20141224 from 2012... . user@serv:~ % ksh -c "date -r" date: -r: unknown option Usage: date...

Japanese font,on Console/Term font is not show japanese font,only random character and "????"i dont know this,im instaling japanese/font-sazanami/ and still same result.But on Firefox and x11/polybar is showing japanese font. -- Xorg.conf -- Section "Files" ModulePath...