Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:20:14 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vidcontrol to set background... Message-ID: <20000411192014.A25019@athena.sea.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <20000411230349.E235@parish>; from Mark Ovens on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 11:03:49PM %2B0100 References: <200004111715.KAA24595@tera.com> <20000411230349.E235@parish>
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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?
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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