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Silpheed:
I'm making console apps and learning more programming techniques and I was wondering.. is there any way to change the color of console output after I compile and run an app under GNU/Linux?
The current background color and text color make it hard to read.
I'd prefer black and white instead of 2 shades of gray.

Jenna:

--- Quote ---Help
Code::Blocks installation/troubleshooting issues. This is NOT a general programming board.
--- End quote ---
That's the description of this board.

Your question is not related to C::B in any way and violates the forum rules.

Please use your favourite search-engine to search the internet or read the man page of your console-app.

Silpheed:
My normal consoles arent colored that way and code::blocks makes some special type of console pop up so I'm wondering how it colors it.
I only came here for help and I've already read the forums rules.

Jenna:
I might have misunderstood you.

Nevertheless:
C::B uses "xterm" to run console apps in and fetch input from as default
On my system "xterm" uses white on black.

You can change the console (and/or the parameters sent to it) in "Settings -> Environment -> General Settings -> Terminal to launch console programs".

Silpheed:
Thank you for that piece of information... that's exactly what I need.

For future people that run across this post here's what I did.

I looked it up: http://www.starnet.com/xwin32kb/edit/Color_and_font_options_for_xterm_and_dtterm/

and you go to Settings > Environment > General Settings

and in "Terminal to Launch Console programs"

You'll see something like 
--- Code: ---xterm -T $TITLE -e
--- End code ---

If you want (for example) a black background and white text.. you change it to


--- Code: ---xterm -bg black -fg white -T $TITLE -e
--- End code ---

Some reason it didnt work when I added to the end but I had to add it right after xterm to make it work.

That's how you fix the problem and I hope this helps somebody in the future.

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