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Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? [message #53074 is a reply to message #53073]

Thu, 15 March 2007 09:29

swingnut
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On Mar 15, 11:07 am, "Maarten" <maarten.sn...@knmi.nl> wrote:
> On Mar 15, 3:33 pm, swing...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> On Mar 15, 10:31 am, swing...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>> Does anyone know how to do this? This white on black business, less
>>> than fun, even with the LCD's brightness turned down...
>
>>> Thanks.
>
>> By which, of course, I mean, exactly the opposite of what I put. I
>> have black text on a white background, and I want the ability to set
>> light-colored text on dark background, though not necessarily white
>> text on black background if I can avoid it.
>
> Since the shell just runs in a standard xterm, you can just google for
> that. I did, and thishttp://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-739.ht ml
> may be helpful to you.
>
> Maarten

Actually, I've already tweaked my terminal quite a bit. But that's
terminal. IDL spawns a different X11 terminal, then spawns its own
terminal window. But perhaps it inherits the X11 terminals properties,
which should be tweakable ... I'll have to investigate!

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		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: swingnut on Fri, 16 March 2007 14:45
		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: Christopher Thom on Thu, 15 March 2007 20:32
		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 15 March 2007 11:58
		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: mmeron on Thu, 15 March 2007 11:48
		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 15 March 2007 11:05
		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: swingnut on Thu, 15 March 2007 09:29
		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: Maarten[1] on Thu, 15 March 2007 09:07
		Re: change colors of IDL shell on OS X? By: swingnut on Thu, 15 March 2007 08:33

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