Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 18:30:38 +0300 (EEST) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Katinka Mills <katinka@kaqelectronics.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ncurses Message-ID: <20030526182347.C1441@gothmog> In-Reply-To: <FPEOKJIFLCAMCIODEAJPMEMFELAA.katinka@kaqelectronics.dyndns.org> References: <FPEOKJIFLCAMCIODEAJPMEMFELAA.katinka@kaqelectronics.dyndns.org>
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On 2003-05-26 22:34, Katinka Mills wrote: > > I have googled and I have RTFM'd but I am missing something :o( > How do I set the background colour of the ENTIRE window and screen ? > I just hate black lol and would like blue :o) Look at the manpage of vidcontrol: $ man vidcontrol You should be able to change the current colour of console terminals like this: $ vidcontrol white blue For extra fun, you can change the colours used for "reverse video" too, with something like: $ vidcontrol -r blue white white blue or even add a border of the same colour: $ vidcontrol -b blue -r blue white white blue When you play around and decide what colour combination you want to keep, it's easy to make the change in /etc/rc.conf to set these colours automatically at boot time. Just add the colours you like best to the 'allscreens_flags' variable (add it to a new line if you don't have it already), i.e. allscreens_flags="-b blue -r blue white white blue" - Giorgos
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