Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:52:26 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vidcontrol to set background... Message-ID: <20000412205226.B236@parish> In-Reply-To: <20000411192014.A25019@athena.sea.tera.com>; from kline@tera.com on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 07:20:14PM -0700 References: <200004111715.KAA24595@tera.com> <20000411230349.E235@parish> <20000411192014.A25019@athena.sea.tera.com>
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 07:20:14PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 11:03:49PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 10:15:43AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > >
> > > Anybody know how to set the console (or vconsole) to a light background
> > > with dark type? `vidcontrol show' shows you various flavors of fg and
> > > bg, but I didn't find anything that worked. (I found some pretty
> > > interestly ugly combos, tho.... :)
> > >
> >
> > Not sure exactly what you're asking here; you obviously know about
> > ``vidcontrol <foreground> <background>''
>
>
> --What I tried after rebooting recently was something like
>
> # vidcontrol black white
>
> and that not working. Some others like `yellow blue' did
> work, but then the directory listed by "ls -l" were invisible.
>
> Is there any reason that white | lightwhite won't work as a
> console background?
>
Hmmm, works for me (I've just tried it to be certain). You have to do
a clear(1) after the vidcontrol to repaint the current screen, but ls
listings appear fine as black text on white (well greyish really)
background. You can't use brightwhite (or bright-anything) as the
background, only the foreground.
What version of FreeBSD are you running? the syscons driver appears to
have been completely re-written in 4.0? I'm on 4.0 BTW.
> gary
>
>
>
>
> >
> > This script shows a wider range of combinations:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > # Display ANSI colours.
> > #
> > esc="\033["
> > echo -e "\t 40\t 41\t 42\t 43\t 44 45\t46\t 47"
> > for fore in 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37; do
> > line1="$fore "
> > line2=" "
> > for back in 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47; do
> > line1="${line1}${esc}${back};${fore}m Normal ${esc}0m"
> > line2="${line2}${esc}${back};${fore};1m Bold ${esc}0m"
> > done
> > echo -e "$line1\n$line2"
> > done
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > thanks for some ideas,
> > >
> > > gary
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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> > > Cray Inc
> > > Seattle, Washington
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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