filepro colors on Fedora

[Calvin Covington]

Thanks Kenneth, Scott & Bruce

I should have explained the situation  more.   First of all,  I'm obviously 
no pro at termcap/colors stuff, either.  My problem is that I've updated a 
clients server from Fedora 11 to 13.   When I run filepro on the new Fedora 
console.. the colors are not pleasant at all,   white characters on light 
colored (but bright) background,  etc,     I had the same problem with 
Fedora 11, and 'somehow'  I found a way to just turn the colors off on the 
console.   (and, can't find my notes)

I have set DIR_COLORS colors to 'none',  and that took care of the annoying 
color changes on the console -- except when I run filepro.  I'd like to just 
set it to monochome (black and white) on the console...

Bruce, I like your idea of making screen changes on a different box.... I've 
got a couple of clients with some really gimped up looking screens (on the 
console) !

Calvin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Easton" <bruce at stn.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: filepro colors on Fedora


> Calvin, I was actually just getting ready to ask sort of the same thing
> about 1/2 hour ago.  I'm not very experienced with playing with colors
> in filepro, nor with messing with termcaps, and whenever I need to go
> into emulator settings for anything, I usually need a sudafed first.
> Anyway, we have this Fedora box where we installed filepro.  I think
> Cesar in our office set up the fp config file for the colors and it
> looks great when running fp apps.  Up until now, I've only ported fp
> apps over there and ran them as a demo.  Only recently have I needed to
> modify screens on that box - and when I do, it asks the question that
> you are changing the monochrome screen to a color screen.  For my needs
> (since I'm working on a lot of web front end stuff), I didn't really
> care if I messed up the monochrome screen.  But the problem is, that if
> I did want to change a field here and there, and start using color, I
> don't how you can do it under Linux fp - for instance, no shift-F10 to
> get color help.  So for a short while here, I've just been modifying the
> monochrome screens on my back-up system and porting them over to the
> Fedora box.
>
> I understand that Laura has a utility for easier color mgt., and it
> sounds like that is available for all platforms for fp ?4.8? and above -
> at least I think I saw that somewhere.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but I think it would be really sad if you
> really have no color control native to fp under Linux.  Or maybe if that
> is the case, then is it only because I'm using an xterm emulation that
> the default for fp is to assume that I'm gonna work with color and not
> monochrome screens?
>
> But since I'm working with an xterm emulation - I discovered something
> by pure guess only about 15 minutes ago.  If I change the termcap
> specification for something called "tc" where it says "tc=linux" to says
> "tc=ansi", then walla - I can work in monochrome mode on the Fedora and
> modify screens, keeping them in monochrome.  I did after that need to
> set in the Mac's terminal setting the background to something
> appropiatley offsetting to the text color (from blue to off-white, and
> the text color is black).  But at least now I can work this way.
>
> I guess also once I'm finished modifying screens in mono-mode there, I
> guess I can always switch that entry back to 'linux' so that I can demo
> char-based stuff in the great-looking color scheme that's there.
>
> Now like I say, I'm a dunce when it comes to all this
> terminal/termcap/color stuff, so I'm sure I'm going about this all
> wrong, but wanted to share this and maybe learn something from other
> responses on this.
>
>
>
> Bruce
>
>
> Bruce Easton
> STN, Inc.
>
>
>
> On 6/29/10 1:26 PM, Calvin Covington wrote:
>> How can I tame filepro colors on Fedora 13.....   monochrome would be 
>> fine.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Calvin
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