Sujet : KDE Konsole Shows Colours De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro) Groupes :comp.os.linux.misc Date : 01. Aug 2024, 02:50:31 Autres entêtes Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID :<v8epl6$1v4sk$1@dont-email.me> User-Agent : Pan/0.159 (Vovchansk; )
I noticed this happening a while back, but it took a couple of months to figure out what was going on.
It appears Konsole has this (undocumented?) feature where, if you hover over the name of a colour in a terminal session, it will helpfully pop up this square showing what the colour looks like.
The colour names come from the traditional X11 set in /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt, with limits: it only looks at single-word names, and does not match names with numeric suffixes. Thus, “darkmagenta” will work (case-insensitive match against “DarkMagenta”), while “dark magenta” only matches the “magenta” part, and “magenta1” is not recognized at all.
It will also recognize a sequence of 3 or 6 hex digits preceded by “#” -- “#rgb” or “#rrggbb”, as commonly used in HTML. Just tried 8 hex digits -- “#rrggbbaa” with alpha transparency -- and that works too.
This feature has been around for a couple of years, that I know of.