On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 08:41:37AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not say how to > obtain it. > IIRC the VT100 series were *physically* a B&W display. > Web search gives no useful information. > Help please. > TIA > >
MATE terminal is a fork of GNOME terminal from earlier days. Using a search engine to search for Mate colors customisation led me here: https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-mate-customization/ which suggests Open the terminal Go to the Edit menu Select Profile Preferences - which will allow you to change palette colours. If you really want black and white - switching away from the GUI and back using ALt-[Functionkey] will give you full screen black and white, of course, for at least six full screens worth. [Not something I do routinely these days, but I often did this on a real server in front of me to run multiple processes / tail logs / perform CD writes or whatever in the background]. I only saw late DEC terminals and mostly Wyse DEC compatible terminals - as I recall, most were either green text on black background or orange on amber background. A pure mono 80x24 screen would be nice h but you'd need decent contrast. VT100 compatible escape sequences (which now allow you to set colours for prompts instead of blinking/inverse video) which is what every terminal emulator has advertised ever since you needed to _emulate_ a physical serial-connected hardware terminal, that's another thing, of course [When did you last use a vertical tab? Anyone? ]. As ever, Google [or DuckDuckGo or whatever] is your friend and a small amount of personal research can save a lot of time, especially when the fault is seemingly intractable but you can tell other people clearly "I've already tried the following. It didn't work and I've reverted the changes" or whatever. Hope this helps, all best as ever, Andy C.
