Hi,

In some screen grabs, we can see a variety of background coulors and
fots diferent for AmbientShell.
Which are the parameters to change them please?

AFAIK you can do it by placing standard ANSI-codes into Shell-Startup, for example.

Is there a way to prevent a black shell to become grey again when
doing iconify/uniconify?

No way. But the problem is already solved in MorphOS 1.5 shell.

In February Nicolas Sallin suggested me (on the beta2 mailing list) to create and use some configuration files for CON:, but they don't work because they are tied to something new we don't have in MorphOS 1.4.2. We must be patient.

In the meanwhile I've solved the problem with an alias. This was what I inserted in the shell-startup:

Alias setsc Echo "*E[0;0;0;0V*E[1;220;220;220V*E[...*Ec" NoLine

When the shell returns to the original colors, I type "setsc" and they are reset as I want. If you need the previous lines, scroll the history bar, or else remove the final *Ec part from the alias, and the display will not reset automatically.

Regards.

What I told you also works in MorphOS1.4

This will turn your Ambient Shell into ANSI color mode. Simply cut/paste into s:color-startup and execute it whenever you want or add it to s:shell-startup.

;--- Begin s:color-startup ---
echo "*E[0;000;000;000V" ; black
echo "*E[1;255;255;255V" ; white
echo "*E[2;000;255;000V" ; green
echo "*E[3;255;255;000V" ; yellow
echo "*E[4;000;000;255V" ; blue
echo "*E[5;255;000;255V" ; magenta
echo "*E[6;000;255;255V" ; cyan
echo "*E[7;255;000;000V" ; red
;--- End s:color-startup ---

I have a related question-- how does one save the window location/size of the shell? I tried using shapsnot, I believe, but no go.

At present, the New Shell command launches a window that fills my entire screen.

back about 100 years ago when i did something like this on my amiga shell, i added some stuff in the icon.
now, this is from memory, but it looks something like this:

WINDOW=CON:0/50//130/cecilia's Shell/CLOSE

if it blows up, don't blame me!

@ Henes

> by Henes on 2004/6/10 16:00:34
> What I told you also works in MorphOS1.4

Henes = Nicolas Sallin !?

The date was April,1-2 and not February. Nicolas said:

«Put the escape sequence inside envarc:con.init (without the echo command, of course)
and it will be permanent.»

It didn't work, so I asked again and Nicolas replied:

«Well your CON.prefs file should end with "/INIT CON.init" (without the quotes)»

It didn't work, and I gave up to not annoy Nicolas. (Is something else needed?)

Subsequently Jacek Piszczek jr said:

«Your wishes will come true with MOS 1.5 :)»

Thanks, Cecilia. It is coming back to me now. I believe I modified a shell icon back in earlier days. I may not be able to make these settings stick in a global manner.

Quote:

To permantely change CON: colors, you may do:

1. Create a file 'envarc:con.prefs' and add to it:

//////INIT con.init

(I guess you may also add default sizes, title, window gadgets,... much like when calling "newshell from con:150/200/200/300/MyTitle/CLOSE...")

2. Create a file 'envarc:con.init' and add to it your color escape sequences

Should be ok...

Leo.

You could install MUIcon and set your colors in MUIprefs and get other great features too.

--Aaron