Re: set the highlight color when searching

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:07 AM, gerlach <jack@aiai.de> wrote:

> You're right! i didn't know that the limiting software is my XFCE
> 0.4.8-Terminal (XFCE 4 Desktop).

> M-x list-colors-display RET
> results in 8 colors: white is displayed as lightblue, yellow as purple, ,
> then black, green, blue, magenta, cyan. So I've no "light"  colors. I could
> update to XFCE 0.6 terminal but at the moment it's not worth it, I've found
> a color combination with that I can work with.

You can configure XFCE Terminal to use any 16 colors (8 basic colors
and 8 for bold text).

You can also configure XFCE Terminal to support 256 colors.

I am describing the current version that ships in XFCE 4.10 but I am
pretty sure basic color configuration was there in 4.8, too.