From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 11 19:20:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5DD437B8C6 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:20:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from tera.com (athena.sea.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA04536; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:20:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tera.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id TAA25025; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:20:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:20:14 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Mark Ovens Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vidcontrol to set background... Message-ID: <20000411192014.A25019@athena.sea.tera.com> References: <200004111715.KAA24595@tera.com> <20000411230349.E235@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95us In-Reply-To: <20000411230349.E235@parish>; from Mark Ovens on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 11:03:49PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 '' --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 > > > > > > > > -- > > Gary Kline > > Cray Inc > > Seattle, Washington > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX > ________________________________________________________________ > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ > mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com > -- Gary Kline Cray Inc Seattle, Washington To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message