My attemtpts configure mlterm have no effect. For exaJmple, I create a file .mlterm/font with the line line: DEFAULT=20x28.
And in the file .m lterm/background is the line bg_color=linen


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Haines Brown

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On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 08:45:02AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:

My attemtpts configure mlterm have no effect. For exaJmple, I create a file .mlterm/font with the line line: DEFAULT=20x28.
And in the file .m lterm/background is the line bg_color=linen

Well,
what you did is just the wrong syntax.

in .mlterm/font DEFAULT needs a font. Like "monospace"
according to the man .mlterm/background is not a file recognized by mlterm

-H

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On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 09:35:24AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote:

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 08:45:02AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:

My attemtpts configure mlterm have no effect. For exaJmple, I
create a file .mlterm/font with the line line: DEFAULT=20x28. And
in the file .m lterm/background is the line bg_color=linen

Well,
what you did is just the wrong syntax.

in .mlterm/font DEFAULT needs a font. Like "monospace"
according to the man .mlterm/background is not a file recognized by mlterm

Thanks, Henning, but I remain bewildered.

The mlterm man page provides command line options, I find these all
work and are what I am after:

-f 20 -
-g 128x30
-bg FAF0E6

There is a section in the manual for a background page and the font
page, but, oddly, not for the main page. But intstead of providing a
syntax for the pages, they merely repeat the command line options.

For some reason when I start mlterm, the background color is linen,
That's what I want, but forget what I did to get it. It been many
year since I've worried about it. But when I now install a UHD monitor
I have to make adjustments.

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On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 09:35:24AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote:

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 08:45:02AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:

My attemtpts configure mlterm have no effect. For exaJmple, I create a file .mlterm/font with the line line: DEFAULT=20x28.
And in the file .m lterm/background is the line bg_color=linen

Well,
what you did is just the wrong syntax.

in .mlterm/font DEFAULT needs a font. Like "monospace"
according to the man .mlterm/background is not a file recognized by mlterm

The man page was not much help. It provides only command line options.
I find that these work, but I want is toi have information in the ~/.mlterm/main config file such as this:

geometry = 128x30
bg_color = FAF0E6
font = monospace20

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On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 09:35:24AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote:

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 08:45:02AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:

My attemtpts configure mlterm have no effect. For exaJmple, I create a file .mlterm/font with the line line: DEFAULT=20x28.
And in the file .m lterm/background is the line bg_color=linen

Well,
what you did is just the wrong syntax.

in .mlterm/font DEFAULT needs a font. Like "monospace"
according to the man .mlterm/background is not a file recognized by mlterm

Thanks, but man mlterm discuses command line options, but not syntax for a condfiguration file.
What seek is
geometry = 128x30
font = monospace-20
bg = FAF0E6

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Darac Marjal <[email protected]> wrote:

On 26/01/2025 18:29, Haines Brown wrote:

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 09:35:24AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote:

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 08:45:02AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:

My attemtpts configure mlterm have no effect. For exaJmple, I
create a file .mlterm/font with the line line: DEFAULT=20x28. And
in the file .m lterm/background is the line bg_color=linen

Well,
what you did is just the wrong syntax.

in .mlterm/font DEFAULT needs a font. Like "monospace"
according to the man .mlterm/background is not a file recognized
by mlterm

Thanks, but man mlterm discuses command line options, but not
syntax for a condfiguration file. What seek is
geometry = 128x30
font = monospace-20
bg = FAF0E6

Maybe your man page is different. https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/mlterm/mlterm.1.en.html shows
the manpage as in Bookworm. There, under the section "CONFIGURATION",
it states:

*    mlterm* loads configuration files of "*main*", "*font*",
"*vfont*", "*tfont*", "*aafont*", "*vaafont*", "*taafont*",
"*color*", "*key*", "*termcap*", and "*xim*" on start up.

    The contents of these configuration files (other than *menu*) consist of lines of "/key/=/value/" format. Lines beginning with
"*#*" are ignored.

    Note that the configuration files are changed since version
1.9.44.

Then, under "Main Configuration File" it states:

*bg_color=*/color/ (*-b*, *--bg*)
<https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/mlterm/mlterm.1.en.html#bg_color=>
Background color.

*geometry=*/value/ (*-g*, *--geometry*)
<https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/mlterm/mlterm.1.en.html#geometry=>
Specify size and position of the window; see X(7)
<https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/xorg-docs-core/X.7.en.html>.

Then, under "Font Configuration File" it states:

The font configuration files "*font*", "*vfont*", "*tfont*",
"*aafont*", "*vaafont*", and "*taafont*" have the following keys.

*DEFAULT=*/font/

//

(and so on..)

So, my reading of that could be that *.mlterm/main* should read:

    bg_color=FAF0E6
geometry=128x30

The page also mentions "Valid values for color are color names defined
in rgb.txt and color rgb string whose format is "#RRGGBB", "#RRGGBBAA", "rgb:RR/GG/BB" or "rgba:RR/GG/BB/AA"."

Six hex digits unadorned is not there! :)

and *.mlterm/font* should read:

DEFAULT=monospace-20

But if I could read that information (and I don't even use mlterm)
maybe I've misunderstood your problem?

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On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 07:04:44PM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote:

On 26/01/2025 18:29, Haines Brown wrote:

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 09:35:24AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote:

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 08:45:02AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:

My attemtpts configure mlterm have no effect. For exaJmple, I create a file .mlterm/font with the line line: DEFAULT=20x28.
And in the file .m lterm/background is the line bg_color=linen

Well,
what you did is just the wrong syntax.

...

So, my reading of that could be that *.mlterm/main* should read:

��� bg_color=FAF0E6
geometry=128x30

and *.mlterm/font* should read:

DEFAULT=monospace-20

But if I could read that information (and I don't even use mlterm) maybe
I've misunderstood your problem?

Yes, the problem is that the configuration has no effect. My .mlterm/main
file constains:

geometry = 128x30
bg_color = #FAF0E6
bg_color = FAF0E6

and my font file has:

DEFAULT = monospace-20

This has no effect. I presume I do not have to restart X or reboot to
have them have effect.

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 07:51:44 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:

On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 07:04:44PM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote:

So, my reading of that could be that *.mlterm/main* should read:

��� bg_color=FAF0E6
geometry=128x30

and *.mlterm/font* should read:

DEFAULT=monospace-20

Yes, the problem is that the configuration has no effect. My .mlterm/main file constains:

geometry = 128x30
bg_color = #FAF0E6
bg_color = FAF0E6

and my font file has:

DEFAULT = monospace-20

Do you see the difference between what you wrote, and what Darac wrote?

I found <https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/mlterm/mlterm.1.en.html>
which has a "CONFIGURATION" section, which says:

The contents of these configuration files (other than menu)
consist of lines of "key=value" format. Lines beginning with
"#" are ignored.

Your files have spaces around the = sign. The man page, and Darac's
proposal, do not. So, the first thing I would try would be to remove
the spaces.

However, the people who wrote <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mlterm>
seem to think the spaces are allowed. Some of their examples have
spaces in them. And some do not. So... who knows. I've never used
this terminal before, so all I can do is search for documentation.

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 08:25:57AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:

On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 07:51:44 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:

On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 07:04:44PM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote:

So, my reading of that could be that *.mlterm/main* should read:

��� bg_color=FAF0E6
geometry=128x30

and *.mlterm/font* should read:

DEFAULT=monospace-20

Yes, the problem is that the configuration has no effect. My .mlterm/main file constains:

geometry = 128x30
bg_color = #FAF0E6
bg_color = FAF0E6

and my font file has:

DEFAULT = monospace-20

Do you see the difference between what you wrote, and what Darac wrote?

Yes retarding the spaces around the equal sign. Based on my limited
experiene I'm surprised it makes a difference.

But that is not the real problem. For example, Darac said that the configuration for fonts is:

DEFAULT=*/font/

What is the asterisk there for? Is the forward slashes around the
workd "font " means to indicate it is variable? I had assumed so. In
any case in my font file I have the line

DEFAULT=monospace-20

This has no effect. My main file has the line bg_color=red and this has no effect either.

My default mlterm window linen background, which is what I want. If I
use any command line options, the background turns white. This
suggests to me there is a configutatioan file somewhere that ddoes not
yield to what is in the files in ~/.mltemp



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