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How do I set the colors in console? Blue on black is hard to read.

I tried

man console

but with no success.

Application:
https://www.smokey01.com/radky/UrxvtControl-1.4.pet

Then have a look under the UTILITY submenu

What Puppy version you using????

We always need that info??????

fossapup64 version 9.5
Sorry. Not yet used to this forum's methods.

fossapup64 version 9.5

Ran urxvt. Selected white for URL, rebooted, directories still show in blue. Tried to post images, but failed. Please direct me to instructions to post images.

ionmich wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 5:04 pm

Ran urxvt. Selected white for URL, rebooted, directories still show in blue. Tried to post images, but failed. Please direct me to instructions to post images.

Did you use the apply button before exiting the urxvt utility?

The forum doesn't handle images so well. I upload to here https://postimages.org/
It's free, doesn't require account signup. Then once the image is uploaded click the "hotlink for forum" button to copy the link. Paste it in your post. Works great.

fossapup64 version 9.5

Yes I did "apply" before closing and it confirmed.

I found .Xdefaults in my root directory and it shows

urxvt.foreground:#b9b9b9
urxvt.background:#000000
urxvt.underlineColor:#ec3e90

the same as .Xdefaults.bak

ionmich wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 5:04 pm

Ran urxvt. Selected white for URL, rebooted, directories still show in blue.

No need to reboot - restarting urxvt is enough.

URL or directories? The ls command shows directories in blue. If you want to turn ls colors off, remove alias ls='ls --color=auto' line from the /etc/profile file or add unalias ls line to the /root/.bashrc file or change the color for directories -> edit export LS_COLORS='bd=33:cd=33' line in /etc/profile or add one to /root/.bashrc To show dirs in bold green: export LS_COLORS='bd=33:cd=33:di=1;32' Changing ls colors

ionmich wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 2:37 am

I found .Xdefaults in my root directory and it shows

The setting for URL color in .Xdefaults is urxvt.colorUL:#00ff00

ionmich wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 5:04 pm

fossapup64 version 9.5

Ran urxvt. Selected white for URL, rebooted, directories still show in blue. Tried to post images, but failed. Please direct me to instructions to post images.

when you rebooted did you update the save so setting was saved to now be used?

Selected white for URL

That would make this be in white letters: https://forum.puppylinux.com if it is typed into the terminal.

You were using urxvt as the terminal (console)?

Worked for me to change the color in urxvt.

You can use take a shot program to take a image of what is on the monitor.
Select full screen for everything or window if only a image of a running program window.
Can also edit the image before saving it.
Save the image file to location you can find it.

You need to use take a shot a few times to see how to use it.

When you are making a post with the post composition screen showing.
click on the attachment tab.
That gives you add files tab.
Click on it and navigate to file you want to attach and select it.
You will see the file listed with place inline or delete file buttons.
Put the input at location you want the image in the post.
Click the place inline button and image will be placed there in the post you are making.

There is a max size limit for the attachment file 512KiB
Max limit of three attachments to a post.

fossapup64 version 9.5

add unalias ls line to the /root/.bashrc file

Wonderful! I can see what I am doing. Many thanks.

When you are making a post with the post composition screen showing.
click on the attachment tab.
That gives you add files tab.
Click on it and navigate to file you want to attach and select it.

Testing...
Great! Thank you.

@ionmich , it's possible you tried to post an image that was too wide. To keep everyone happy, the forum won't accept images wider than 450? pixels. (I forget. It's been such a long time since this came up.)

If necessary, you can edit an image with Menu->Graphic->mtPaint->Image->Scale Canvas to shrink it down. Crop it first, so that only the relevant part remains. Less shrinking will be required.

The width of an attached image file is not the limit anymore.
The bigger the image width + height the bigger size it makes the image file.
Run into the forum max file size limit of 512KiB.
So you have to make the image smaller in actual size to get below the forum max file size limit.

Adjusting the width and height will make the actual file size smaller.

what I have found is if an image width is more than 1000 the image file will be bigger than 512KiB.