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Bug 791216 - display lines in alternating background colors
display lines in alternating background colors
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: vte
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: VTE Maintainers
VTE Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-12-04 17:13 UTC by Vinay N K
Modified: 2021-06-10 15:27 UTC
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Description Vinay N K 2017-12-04 17:13:07 UTC 
I am looking for a way to have alternating lines appear in two different backgrounds (like white and light blue for example). Is it possible to do ?

Kind Regards
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Comment 1 Egmont Koblinger 2017-12-04 19:45:49 UTC 
You could perhaps modify your app to explicitly produce such output.

Alternatively, you can consider using a terminal emulator that supports background image, and set up a background image that looks like your desired background coloring. See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/335079/alternating-row-colours-in-terminal/335147 for more details and limitations of this approach. gnome-terminal does not support a background image, but e.g. xfce4-terminal does, and uses the same emulation engine (vte) as gnome-terminal does, only the UI around is different.

There's no straightforward direct support for this in gnome-terminal (or vte), and I don't think we're planning to add it.
Comment 2 Vinay N K 2017-12-05 09:54:04 UTC 
Okay, I will try other possibilities as you suggested. Thanks.

Regards
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Comment 3 Christian Persch 2019-11-20 22:18:51 UTC 
This could be implemented as a pref, in principle. vte could e.g. slightly dim the background colour of every other line.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-06-10 15:27:34 UTC 
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