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How to use the palette config option?

Asked by seenxu

the palette option is cool, but how can I convert a #xxxxxx(6-digit) color name to a #xxxxxxxxxxxx(16-digit) name? I had tried the example palette setting from terminator_config manpage, but the config file can't be parsed during the start of terminator.

thx

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Best Chris Jones (cmsj) said : 		#1

As I understand it, they are 16bit colour values rather than the 8bit values used in #xxxxxx style colours. I didn't particularly want to make this more complex, but it's the format that vte/GNOME Terminal use.

For what it's worth, the current trunk of Terminator has a graphical profile editor that will (hopefully soon) be able to save a config file, at which point you can choose the colour you want and not have to care about what values it has!

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seenxu (seenxu) said : 		#2

Thanks Chris Jones, that solved my question.

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seenxu (ye-xu-hdm) said : 		#3

thx for your reply and helpful tip.

just now I used the gnome-terminal profile preference to modify
gnome-terminal's colors, then copy its colorpalette stringvalue, which
resides in $HOME/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/%gconf.xml
to $HOME/.config/terminator/config, to solve my issue.

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 20:27, Chris Jones
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> As I understand it, they are 16bit colour values rather than the 8bit
> values used in #xxxxxx style colours. I didn't particularly want to make
> this more complex, but it's the format that vte/GNOME Terminal use.
>
> For what it's worth, the current trunk of Terminator has a graphical
> profile editor that will (hopefully soon) be able to save a config file,
> at which point you can choose the colour you want and not have to care
> about what values it has!
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