Different colors per user

[Joe Chasan]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 05:32:24PM -0500, Brian K. White wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe Chasan" <joe at magnatechonline.com>
> To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:19 PM
> Subject: Different colors per user
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> 
> >I have a situation where certain users want different filePro colors
> > than the bulk of other users (e.g. TEXTNORMAL, TEXTINVERSE, etc.). 
> 
> Just TEXTNORMAL=0x... export TEXTNORMAL in the environment by any scheme you want before calling the top level menu. ie: ~/.profile , or if you want to get fancy and come up with something that avoids hand editing .profiles thats fine too. They override the config file the same as PFPRINTER etc..
> 
> Thats how we let developers edit color screens in unix without affecting users, we have a script that selects colors, sets the variables, and calls dscreen, and the color settings only affect that dscreen session.

no such luck, that was the first thing i tried (though checked runmenu and
clerk, not dscreen) - colors in enviroment got overriden by those in
../fp/lib/config.
 
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