Color Effects on Windows (was RE: [VOTE] Apache Karaf (Container) 4.1.1 release)

["Siano, Stephan" <st...@sap.com>]

Hi Guillaume,

thanks, that helps.

Best regards
Stephan

-----Original Message-----
From: Guillaume Nodet [mailto:gnodet@apache.org] 
Sent: Donnerstag, 30. März 2017 15:07
To: dev <de...@karaf.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Apache Karaf (Container) 4.1.1 release

You can disable syntax highlighting in 4.1.1 by adding the following to the
etc/shell.init.script


setopt disable-highlighter

Cheers,
Guillaume

2017-03-29 7:51 GMT+02:00 Siano, Stephan <st...@sap.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I don't think that this is a showstopper, but the release has still very
> strange console color effects on windows:
>
> How to reproduce:
>
> 1. download the zip file from https://repository.apache.org/
> content/repositories/orgapachekaraf-1090/org/
> apache/karaf/apache-karaf/4.1.1/ and unzip it somewhere on a Windows 10
> system.
> 2. double click on bin/karaf.bat. The server will start and you will get a
> console
> 3. If you type anything into the console it will be dark red on black
> ground (which is hardly readable). Once a command is complete, it will turn
> dark blue on black ground (which is even more unreadable). Parameters
> entered to the commands are light grey on black ground, but error messages
> are in the same almost unreadable red as the incomplete commands. I tried
> to change the terminal background to white and the text to black but this
> only makes things worse because the blue and black letters still have a
> black background (so you get black bars on your white background with
> letters in it which are much less readable than before).
>
> Is it possible that these color effects were only tested with terminals
> where the default color is black on white background? Is there a way to
> disable these effects (I can live without any syntax highlighting if I can
> read the texts instead)?
>
> Best regards
> Stephan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Baptiste Onofré [mailto:jb@nanthrax.net]
> Sent: Dienstag, 28. März 2017 22:12
> To: Karaf Dev <de...@karaf.apache.org>
> Subject: [VOTE] Apache Karaf (Container) 4.1.1 release
>
> Hi all,
>
> I submit Karaf (Container) 4.1.1 release to your vote.
>
> Release Notes:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?
> projectId=12311140&version=12339244
>
> Staging Repository:
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachekaraf-1090/
>
> Git Tag:
> karaf-4.1.1
>
> Please vote to approve this release:
>
> [ ] +1 Approve the release
> [ ] -1 Don't approve the release (please provide specific comments)
>
> This vote will be open for at least 48 hours.
>
> Thanks,
> Regards
> JB
> --
> Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> jbonofre@apache.org
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>



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