From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 21 2:31:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ulixes.esc.ac.at (ulixes.esc.ac.at [193.170.216.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2598937B416 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 02:30:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from ulixes.esc.ac.at (localhost.esc.ac.at [127.0.0.1]) by ulixes.esc.ac.at (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1LAUGHr037001; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:30:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from flo@ulixes.esc.ac.at) Received: (from flo@localhost) by ulixes.esc.ac.at (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g1LAUEKc037000; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:30:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from flo) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:30:14 +0100 From: Florian Nigsch To: 72yan M , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Font color Message-ID: <20020221113014.A36760@nigsch.com> References: <02022020552901.72838@c1529030-a.attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <02022020552901.72838@c1529030-a.attbi.com>; from freedom@72oot.net on Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:55:29PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There's another way to do this, much simpler than recompiling your kernel. See vidcontrol(1) try 'vidcontrol show' to get a list of the colors, choose yours and then try 'vidcontrol fg bg', for example 'vidcontrol yellow blue' for yellow text on blue background. bye, flo On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:55:29PM -0800, 72yan M wrote: > Hello, > > The answer is in the kernel and man syscons(4). Add these options: > > # The following options will let you change the default colors of syscons. > options SC_NORM_ATTR="(FG_GREEN|BG_BLACK)" > options SC_NORM_REV_ATTR="(FG_YELLOW|BG_GREEN)" > options SC_KERNEL_CONS_ATTR="(FG_RED|BG_BLACK)" > options SC_KERNEL_CONS_REV_ATTR="(FG_BLACK|BG_RED)" > > The colors that I know of are Black, grey, darkgrey, yellow, lightyellow, > red, lightred, lightblue, blue, green, and lightgreen. There should be a list > of colors at #/usr/inclide/machine/pc/display.h, but I have never seen it. > > 72yan M > > > Hi there FreeBSD gurus, > > > > I would like to know how to change the terminal font colors to others > > rather than the normal white? > > Can this be done ? If so, how can I do it. > > Some help will be appreciated. > > > > Selvam > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---end quoted text--- -- --- Florian Nigsch http://flo.nigsch.com/ PGP key: http://flo.nigsch.com/fnigsch.asc -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GE d- s: a-- C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W N+ o+ K- w-- O-- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ 5 X+ R* tv-- b+ DI+++++ D++ G- e* h r* y+++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message