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Re: Background color detection
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: Background color detection |
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Wed, 14 May 2003 17:22:50 -0400 |
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On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:18:23AM -0500, Rick Richardson wrote:
> terminal, konsole). I'd like to add another mode, and make it
> the default:
> mode 4: autodetect user's background color and use_default_colors
>
> This mode would (somehow) query the underlying terminal emulator to find
> out what color the background is, then compute the luminosity of
> that background and then switch into either mode 2 or mode 3, as
> appropriate.
>
> Has anybody tried doing something like this? Anyway to do this
> that works "for a large set" of terminal emulators?
Offhand I don't know of a method that works for even 2 emulators.
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