[PLUG] Distinguishing instances of GUI file manager by color

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018, Richard Owlett wrote:

> MATE has a terminal - use routinely. The web page I found explicitly used
> the term "terminal emulator". They are evidently minimally (if at all)
> related as I changed the font for "MATE terminal" and it had no effect on
> mc.

Richard,

   I assume you click on an icon to launch your terminal (emulator). How do
you specify which file it should invoke and what icon should be displayed?
If you right-click on the icon do you see a 'properties' option or something
similar?

   All terminals I've used (primarily xterm and urxvt) accept command line
options. Read 'man xterm' or 'man rxvt' for details. One of these options
controls the font size (-fn). Here, the command for my urxvt terminals is:

/usr/bin/urxvt -bg \#0b293b -fg lightgrey -sb -cr yellow -pr yellow -fn
10x20  -geometry 75x25 -ls -si -sk -sw -sr -sl 1024 -n urvxt

   This sets the background color, foreground (text) color, where the
scrollbar is located, the cursor color, the mouse pointer color, the font
size, the initial window size, and so on.

   I'm confident that Mate has similar capabilities.

Regards,

Rich