[NTLUG:Discuss] change terminal colors

Steve Baker sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Tue Sep 4 17:34:22 CDT 2001


Steve Jackson wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know how to permanently change the terminal colors on Linux.
> I'm using SuSE 7.2.  I can echo control characters to the screen and get the
> desired color change, but it will be reset whenever any app (that writes
> color to the screen ie: vi, ls) is run.  Any suggestions?

Do you mean console terminals, Xterm's or what?

In KDE's 'konsole' terminal window (for example) there is a menu that
lets you choose between a gazillion colour schemes and (yukky) background
textures.

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