[PLUG] Mint 14 Xfce issues

[Dale Snell]

On Tue, 28 May 2013 19:26:49 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:

> But now I find numerous problems with it. For starters, in the
> terminal the "jjj at Devil10" is in Mint green. I can't stand that
> color, and besides it's really hard to read. I can't find any setting
> to change it, although I can change the color of the background and
> the rest of the text. I installed Gnome-terminal, but it also comes
> up with the same color. Must be a Mint thing. Is there a way to
> excise Mint green, or did I make a bad distro choice?

I assume you mean the terminal prompt, rather than the titlebar text.
Check your ~/.bashrc file.  You should find one or more lines like:

    tput setf n

where "n" is an integer number representing the color of your
text.  ("setf" stands for "set_foreground", meaning to set the
foreground text color.)  I do something similar, causing my prompt
to be displayed in bold white.  If I su to root, the prompt
changes color to red.  I find this quite helpful.

Forgive me, but you'll have to determine the color-to-number mappings
yourself.  It's been too long, and I've forgotten what they are.
Also, you'll want to check the man page for tput(1) and terminfo(5).
The latter will tell you what the terminal capability names are that
you need to feed tput.

> Also, I can ask questions on the Xfce forums, but to do so I should
> say what version of Xfce I have. How can I find out what version of
> Xfce I have? 

I believe the command "xfce4-about" will turn the trick.

Hope this helps.

--Dale

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