sysadmcolor(F)

sysadmcolor -- colors

Format

Sysadmsh.window: foreground_color background_color

Description

The files $HOME/.sysadmcolor and /usr/lib/sysadm/sysadmcolor describe what colors will be used within each window of sysadmsh. This feature will only come into effect on terminals which support color, and have the necessary information in their respective terminfo(M) definitions.

When sysadmsh is started, it will first try to read the file .sysadmcolor in the user's home directory. If that file does not exist, it will try to read the file /usr/lib/sysadm/sysadmcolor. If neither file exists, a default color table stored within sysadmsh is used. The environment variable $SYSADM may be set to other than the directory /usr/lib/sysadm to specify a different path to be searched for the sysadmcolor file.

Each line in a sysadmcolor file must be in one of the following formats:

Comment line

The first character must be a number sign (#); the rest of the line is taken to be a comment and ignored.

Blank line

Any lines containing just tabs and spaces will be ignored.

Window Color

This line has three whitespace-separated fields (as shown in the ``Format'' section).

The window field is a label for one of the various windows that sysadmsh can display, chosen from the following;

context_window: which contains the name of the last selected menu entry, located in the top right of the display
date_window: which contains the current working directory and date, located on the fourth line of the display
desc_window: which contains the description of the currently available menu selections, located on the third line of the display
edit_window: which is used to edit text, usually opened over a field the user has selected for editing
error_window: in which error messages display, located on the bottom line of the display
form_window: in which forms are displayed
menu_window: which contains the menu bar, located on the second line of the display
mode_window: which displays those editing modes which are in effect, located in the middle of the top line of the display
point_window: which is used for pick-and-point lists
scan_window: which is used to display scanned listings of data

The foreground_color and background_color fields contain the code numbers for the foreground and background colors used in that window. The codes for each color are listed below:

Code Color

0 Black

1 Red

2 Green

3 Yellow

4 Blue

5 Magenta

6 Cyan

7 White

Note that if the file does not contain a line for a particular window construct, the default colors from the internal color table will be used.

Code	Color
0	Black
1	Red
2	Green
3	Yellow
4	Blue
5	Magenta
6	Cyan
7	White

Examples

The following example file shows the default colors used by sysadmsh.

   #
   # The standard colors used by sysadmsh(ADM).
   #
   Sysadmsh.menu_window:		7	0
   Sysadmsh.desc_window:		7	0
   Sysadmsh.context_window:	7	0
   Sysadmsh.date_window:		7	0
   Sysadmsh.mode_window:		7	0
   Sysadmsh.error_window:		7	0
   Sysadmsh.point_window:		7	0
   Sysadmsh.form_window:		7	0
   Sysadmsh.prompt_window:		7	0
   Sysadmsh.scan_window:		7	0
   Sysadmsh.edit_window:		7	0

Files

/usr/lib/sysadm/sysadmcolor: full pathname of system-wide default sysadmcolor

Standards conformance