Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 05:13:23 -0800 (PST) From: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net> To: Pascal Giannakakis <CapM@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing colors in shells Message-ID: <20031029044709.N1933@d66-183-123-52.bchsia.telus.net> In-Reply-To: <23741.1067423729@www29.gmx.net> References: <23741.1067423729@www29.gmx.net>
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: > Lo folks, > > i would like to change the colors of the shell to FG=green BG=black. I do > _not_ ask how to change the promt, i rather want to change the default FG BG > colors, so that with whatever program (be it Konsole, putty, ssh.org, ...) i > log in via SSH it uses this colors. I am aware of the fact that i can set up > these colors in the clients itself, however this is not what i want. > > Where do i set them up? Thank you! If you mean the text console: vidcontrol green black If you mean in X, you can control it from the command line when launching an application: xterm -bg black -fg green Add this to your .xession file or check your windowmanager's docs for setting it in desktop shortcuts. Cheers, Viktor
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