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Change colors in colorized output?
Added by Matt Thompson over 3 years ago
All,
Random question. Is there a way to change the colors used for CDO's colorized output (less changing source code)? The main issue is that on my dark background terminal the blue is a bit hard for me to see. I'd love to change that to a teal or cyan or other more constrasting color.
Thanks,
Matt
Hi Matthew,
you can use another e.g. RGB color table with
cdo grfill,RGB="TRUE",colourtable="cols.rgb" ifile ofile
the RGB color cols.rgb:
6
RGB(0.0;0.0;1.0)
RGB(0.0;0.0;0.5)
RGB(0.0;0.5;0.5)
RGB(0.0;1.0;0.0)
RGB(0.5;0.5;0.0)
RGB(1.0;0.0;0.0)
You can get more information with
cdo -h grfill
-Karin
hi Matthew!
you can check the values for the '-C' option with your terminal: no,auto,all
For me colors change with the color-palette I use for the terminal emulator (in my case it is 'terminator')
hth
ra;lf
Ah, sorry I was on the wrong track, of course I thought about plotting. 
Ralf,
I did see -C and have started using that to turn off the colors. But it's interesting it responds to your emulator.
Do you know what environment variable (maybe?) might affect it?
Or, I suppose, is there a CDO_XXX environment variable I could use to disable colors if I can't figure out how to get the terminal to change them? (I suppose I could alias cdo to 'cdo -C no' as well).
Matt
yh, an alias to
cdo -C no
is what you need to set up. no environment variable afaik
cheers
ralf