<to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 11:56:38AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 15:58:09 +0000 > > fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > > > is use dialog to create simple menus > > > it's always white background and blue text > > > how can i change the colors [snip] > I guess it is /usr/bin/dialog, from the same-named package. This > would be a ncurses program, although there seems to be an X > incarnation. > > Not installed on my box, so I can't currently try things (for the > curious: the man page is online here [1]). There seems to be a > dialogrc init file, I guess that's where to set things like colors. > > Cheers > > [1] https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/dialog/dialog.1.en.html
The man page also mentions the --colors option, which appears to control whether you can embed color control characters in the dialog text. Without more information from the OP it's difficult to go any further.
