Re: Use of cmy colour codes in Terminator

[pauline-galea]

Good Morning Koichi,

You must be surely right because when I tried it, I simply got the default
colour scheme.  Do you know of algorithm to do a conversion?  I want to call
it from my bash script or write the conversion in bash.

Regards
P


> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 12:02 PM
> From: "Koichi Murase" <myoga.murase@gmail.com>
> To: pauline-galea@gmx.com
> Cc: "help bash" <help-bash@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Use of cmy colour codes in Terminator
>
> 2021年4月20日(火) 7:04 <pauline-galea@gmx.com>:
> > Has anybody any idea if I can use cmy colour codes when
> > using the program Terminator?
> 
> No, you can't.  Terminator is based on VTE, and VTE doesn't support
> other than 2 and 5.  As far as I know, almost no terminals support CMY
> (3) or CMYK (4) but Mintty.  I think there are no significant demands
> because applications can always convert CMY/CMYK to RGB so will
> continue to use the well-supported RGB.
> 
> --
> Koichi
> 
>