asked 2015-05-13 16:03:17 +0300
Hi,
I want to change the background color on Fingerterm to white(or light gray) and foreground color to black. Any ideas how to do that? Where does it get the colors settings it using by default? I doubt those would be hardcoded on it..
answered 2015-05-14 11:00:40 +0300
Seems you can't do this on device directly.
Fingerterm contains QML files as resources integrated in binary, not as separate files under /usr/share.
So you need to make changes in source, and rebuild it yourself.
The file resides here; /usr/share/fingerterm/Main.qml
Yes, it can be done directly on the device - maybe the fingerterm package has been updated since you guys wrote these answers/comments.
See my 'workaround' here;
https://together.jolla.com/question/102504/allow-setting-background-colour-of-fingerterm/
Spam Hunter ( 2017-11-21 14:31:57 +0300 )editI did the change a while ago not to use resource to encapsulate the QML files, indeed. @pvuorela accepted them upstream and finally here they come.
Damien Caliste ( 2017-11-21 14:46:03 +0300 )editanswered 2015-07-26 14:34:06 +0300
Hmmm, something is strange here. I tried grep:ing the source for 000000 and ffffff. I only got hits in the *.qml-files and some irrelevant hits in *.layout. Since the qml-files remain as text in the binary I simply did a:
# Get root priviliges
devel-su
# Change black into almost-white yellow, and white into black with a tinge of red
cat /usr/bin/fingerterm | sed -e 's/#000000/#ffffe8/' | sed -e 's/#ffffff/#0f0000/' > fingerterm-yellow
# Save original fingerterm
mv /usr/bin/fingerterm fingerterm-orig
# Put my "yellowfied" fingerterm in place of the original
mv fingerterm-yellow /usr/bin/fingerterm
# Make the new fingerterm runnable and belonging to root
chown root:root /usr/bin/fingerterm
chmod a+xr /usr/bin/fingerterm
But no dice, fingerterm remained stubbornly black!
(Once you are done with experimenting, you can do:
mv fingerterm-orig /usr/bin/fingerterm
to restore fingerterm to its original state)
So, the colours are not set in the binary! Where then? (Or perhaps I am misunderstanding how the qml-files work in the binary?)
answered 2017-11-20 17:23:51 +0300
To set colours of input and output text, type e.g. setterm --foreground black --background white
It really works, but yet I have not found a way to change the entire background. So this is not a perfect solution, but merely one move into that direction.
(Back-linking also same answer here)
answered 2015-05-13 19:49:42 +0300
This post is a wiki. Anyone with karma >75 is welcome to improve it.
https://github.com/nemomobile/fingerterm/blob/master/qml/Main.qml has some options to change! So there must be another file in the file system which you can change.
Moved here: https://git.merproject.org/mer-core/fingerterm/tree/master
I spent 15 minutes trying to find anything related to that file on my phone with no luck. :( The closest thing I could find was "~/.config/FingerTerm/settings.ini", but it doesn't have color settings.
drcouzelis ( 2015-05-13 21:09:42 +0300 )editAsked: 2015-05-13 16:03:17 +0300
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Last updated: Nov 21 '17
A quick find . -name main.qml as root found these files on my phone:
./usr/share/store-client/main.qml ./usr/share/jolla-startupwizard-pre-user-session/main.qml ./usr/share/jolla-startupwizard/main.qml ./usr/share/voicecall-ui-jolla/main.qml ./usr/share/csd/main.qml ./usr/share/sailfish-maps/main.qml ./usr/share/harbour-jopas/qml/main.qml ./usr/share/harbour-screenshot/qml/main.qml ./usr/share/lipstick-jolla-home-qt5/main.qml ./usr/share/sailfish-tutorial/main.qml ./usr/share/harbour-flappy/qml/main.qml ./usr/share/harbour-xbmcremote/qml/main.qml
Judging by the names I don't think those are the one which has the Fingerterm settings.. Where the hell could it be..
- brc
bracket ( 2015-05-13 22:43:22 +0300 )edit