Re: tn5250 using X

["Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 11:29:04AM +0000, Martin Rowe wrote:
> On an unrelated subject, how is coulour handled by the emulator? I get both
> blue and turquiose as the same colour, but blue is in a bolder font (both
> look like the turquiose as seen on a colour dumb terminal or CA emulation
> session). Is this a tn5250 thing, or something to do with my colour mapping
> somewhere?

The colour mapping is hard coded in cursesterm.c - the init_pair() calls are
what initialize colours.. do 'man curs_color' (Yes, I'm American but I like the
other spelling .. too many Clive Barker/Douglas Adams books at an
impressionable age :)

Feel free to tweak them and recommend a better combination.  The colour
mappings used by the S/Lang interface (enabled with --with-slang option to
configure) are different and (IMHO) worse.  Of course my opinion really isn't
so humble there, since I wrote that code :)  That is hardcoded in slangterm.c
You'll have to find the S/Lang documentation in a distribution-specific place
to figure out how to tweak that.

The warning is that there aren't many colours to choose from.

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
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