From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 12:03:41 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA10167 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 12:03:41 -0800 Received: from louie.udel.edu (mmdf@louie.udel.edu [128.175.2.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA10155 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 12:03:39 -0800 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 12:03:39 -0800 From: <@ee.udel.edu,@eecis.udel.edu,@louie.udel.edu:alexandr@louie.udel.edu> Message-Id: <199511162003.MAA10155@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: from snow-white.ee.udel.edu by louie.udel.edu id aa26736; 16 Nov 95 14:39 EST Received: from stimpy.eecis.udel.edu by snow-white.ee.udel.edu id aa28896; 16 Nov 95 14:39 EST Received: from snow-white.ee.udel.edu by stimpy.eecis.udel.edu id aa10870; 16 Nov 95 19:38 GMT To: hm@altona.hamburg.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: PCVT Help Organization: Mos Eisley Candy Store Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In Reply to Your Message of Thu, 16 Nov 1995 07: 23:48 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <10864.816550735.1@louie.udel.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 14:38:56 -0500 From: Jerry Alexandratos Message-ID: <9511161938.aa10870@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu> Hellmuth Michaelis says: :From the keyboard of alexandr@louie.udel.edu: : :> When I compiled my kernel with PCVT support, PCVT automatically chose :> some default colors. For example, kernel messages are lightgrey on :> red, bold is lg on blue, underline is lg on brown, etc... :> :> These are the colors that I'm aiming to change. : :Ok, now i understand! : :The kernel messages are my personal preference and can be changed in newer :pcvt's by specifying COLOR_KERNEL_FG, COLOR_KERNEL_BG and/or MONO_KERNEL_FG :and MONO_KERNEL_BG - have a look at the very end of pcvt_conf.h - i don't :recall if the pcvt in 2.0.5 already does this, if not get yourself pcvt :release 3.32. Okay, but how do I set the colors for bold, underline, blinking, etc... characters? Should I do this in the source code, or is there a way to do it by sending the escape sequences to the terminal? --Jerry 8) Jerry Alexandratos % - % "Nothing inhabits my (8 8) alexandr@louie.udel.edu % - % thoughts, and oblivion (8 8) darkstar@strauss.udel.edu % - % drives my desires." (8