[Konsole-devel] Colors, Gnu Emacs, & Console

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Mon Jul 22 17:25:31 UTC 2002


On Monday 22 July 2002 10:05 am, Steve wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I'm using Suse 7.2 with the KDE 2.12 and gnu emacs 21.1.
> ( I also have this issue with Red Hat 7.3 and KDE 3.0 )
>
> I like to use emacs in konsole.
>
> I like using konsole with a black background, but I like using emacs (
> in konsole) with a white background.
>
> Emacs has command line options and extension code to set its background
> colors when it is used in a terminal.
>
> I've tried using all of the variations to set the background to white,
> but in konsole it comes out as gray.  I even used rgb values with these
> commands.
>
> The folks in comp.emacs claim it is a terminial issue.
>
> *If* that is true is there anything I can change so "white" is "white"
> instead of gray?

Use the default color scheme :-)

You can specify on the command line the schema to use with '--schema <name>' 
so you can make two buttons, one for a white on black konsole and one for an 
emacs konsole.

Cheers,
Waldo
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