Colour Scheme on lxterminal in lubuntu

[charnley]

Hi Guys.

Just installed lubuntu, but after working a few hours with
the lxterminal, i find the syntax highlight colours are really
annoying. I cannot find the anyway too change the colours
except the 'background / foreground' colours, which doesnt
change the very dark blue for comments.

How do I make the colours more readable?

best regards
Jim

[Rodney9]

Go to 'Edit' 'Preferences' in KXTerminal and you can change colours, fonts etc. See screenshot below.


For How-To's, Information and Screen-Casts on Lubuntu go to the
Lubuntu One Stop Thread -

Lubuntu One Stop Thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1844755)

Rodney

[charnley]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

These settings, however, does not change the colour of the
syntaxhighlight

fx:

ls -> folders are very dark

vim code.src -> comment syntax highlight are very hard to read
with such a dark colour.

These were the colours I wanted to change.

[Rodney9]

Marty Jack from LXDE Org http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?t=1478&f=26 wrote:

At this time we do not offer any more customization than foreground/background. You are encouraged to run any terminal emulator that meets your needs.

These pages has tips on Vim Syntax Colours -

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13258/dark-blue-color-in-vim-or-ls-output-in-linux

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/256_colors_in_vim

I think you may want to try another terminal, Aterm is very lightweight - http://linuxreviews.org/software/x11-terms/aterm/

Some prefer Eterm - http://www.eterm.org/docs/view.php?doc=man

and of course there is Xterm - http://mkaz.com/solog/system/xterm-colors.html

Rodney

[charnley]

Thanks for the answer.

Ended up installing gnome-terminal, so i could change the colour theme.

Too bad the colours is unreadable in lxterminal. I normally do not use a lot of time on choosing a colour : )

[itcotbtoemik]

Marty Jack from LXDE Org http://forum.lxde.org (http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?t=1478&f=26)

and of course there is Xterm - http://mkaz.com/solog/system/xterm-colors.html

Rodney

The "xterm-colors" page seems to imply that colors have to be names from rgb.txt
That is not correct, since colors can be specified as hexadecimal triples (as in
the app-defaults file for xterm). Some applications may require names.