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come on guys, don't approve each and every tag wiki/excerpt thoughtlessly, there were at least 3 plagiarization and all of them didn't include when or why use the tags unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/72946 <-- the most representative example

Faheem Mitha

9:27 PM

@Braiam where is the content from?

Vass

@FaheemMitha, can you give me some advice on where to find a color theme to install for the terminal? for some reason the solarized theme is empty for the terminal

Faheem Mitha

@Vass I have no idea. What terminal is this?

Vass

gnome terminal

is there a difference? is the color theme files not the same for all terminals?

Faheem Mitha

@Vass Dunno. You want to use like a png file for the background? something like that?

Vass

just nice highlighting of the commands text and nice toolbar

Faheem Mitha

9:36 PM

@Vass Oh. Sounds like a reasonable question for the site. Just make sure to be clear what you are asking.

And the command text highlighting doesn't have anything to do with the terminal.

What is your distribution?

you mean you want the bash cmd line to be colorized? I don't know if that is possible. It's interactive.

Braiam

@FaheemMitha just google it... the man pages, wiki pages, etc. is not useful in any case and poisonous to keep catering them, is difficult to make people read them to use the properly, now we are filling them with rubbish

Vass

@FaheemMitha because it is interactive it is not possible to make it look like vim?

I downloaded the git repository for solarized- ethanschoonover.com/solarized

and the part for the terminal was empty^^

although I had found other blog posts pointing to it and giving instructions

the next best thing I have found is a terminal 'emulator', but what is a terminal emulator?? geekssharingspace.org/2013/12/…

Seth

Terminal emulator

A terminal emulator, terminal application, term, or tty for short, is a program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture. Though typically synonymous with a shell or text terminal, the term terminal covers all remote terminals, including graphical interfaces. A terminal emulator inside a graphical user interface is often called a terminal window. A terminal window allows the user access to a text terminal and all its applications such as command-line interfaces (CLI) and text user interface (TUI) applications. These may be running either on the same machine or on a...

Vass

@Seth, so is it possible to get a theme for the terminal like vim and emacs?

Seth

yes it is.

what emulator are you using?

Vass

9:53 PM

gnome-terminal

Seth

ah, that's pretty easy then. github.com/Anthony25/gnome-terminal-colors-solarized

Vass

going to try it now

any idea why "Unable to locate package dconf-cli"?

i cant even find it on the synaptic package manager

@Seth, do you know how I can install dconf-cli if apt-get is unable to locate it? I have seen it being used elsewhere in other tools. do i go to a webpage like packages.debian.org/sid/utils/dconf-cli and download one of the files?^^

I downloaded, packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/dconf-cli/download, did dpkg install and got errors that it would break dconf-tools

Faheem Mitha

10:16 PM

@Vass this kind of question should really be asked on the site, not here.

You'll also get more people seeing it, which from your pov is presumably a good thing

@Vass what does apt-cache policy dconf-cli

Vass

Im wondering whether these questions are not general enough? to specific to a particular problem I am having

Faheem Mitha

Also, of course, the idea is for the question/answers to be archived so they are useful to others

Vass

apt-cache policy dconf-cli
dconf-cli:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:

Faheem Mitha

@Vass Well, ask it. If people think it is unsuitable, it will be closed. But the bar here is not particularly high. There are tons of niche questions asked here every day.

root@orwell:/home/faheem# apt-cache policy dconf-cli
dconf-cli:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.22.0-1
Version table:
0.22.0-1 0
50 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
50 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages

You need testing/unstable sources. If you add those, make sure to add a preferences file too.

i.e. /etc/apt/preferences

Adding the following in there will work:

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 50

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50

If you don't do that, you'll end up upgrading your system to unstable. Are you currently running wheezy?

@Seth what does this theme do exactly?

Vass

@FaheemMitha, did not change anything. Will ask a question on it :D

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