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jeff-hughes / shellcaster

Terminal-based podcast manager built in Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0
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ignores config? #42

Closed ktpx closed 3 years ago

ktpx commented 3 years ago

Hi,

Is it not possible change the background color? I need white on black text, but setting that in the config does nothing.

Im trying to reverse the colors, as i cant read black background on white foreground very well.

Thanks

jeff-hughes commented 3 years ago

Hi @ktpx,

Could you paste the contents of your config file, please? It should be possible to change the colours, but if any option in the config is not set properly (e.g., a typo), it will fall back on the defaults. Of course, also possible there's a bug :)

ktpx commented 3 years ago

I only got this:

download_path = "/media/Podcasts" [colors] normal_foreground = "black" normal_background = "white" error_foreground = "black" error_background = "white"

Maybe its the terminal...

ktpx commented 3 years ago

Yeah, must be a terminal problem...nevermind, closing it.

jeff-hughes commented 3 years ago

Ahh yes, the named colours like "white", "black", "red", etc. refer to the 8-colour ANSI standard colours, and thus will use whatever colours those are set to in your terminal. (For example, "white" in my terminal is actually set to a light grey colour.) Specifying the colours directly with hex codes or "rgb(, , _)" in the config file should work--provided your terminal has wider colour support, of course.

I will see if I can make that a bit clearer in the documentation to hopefully avoid some confusion. Anyway, glad you got it working!

ktpx commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the tip.

yeah, the color wasnt really white as you said, was greyish, Thanks for the tip, will use the RGB codes (im using e-ink screen, so i just want plain white :D )

Ktp