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From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
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Subject: Re: vidcontrol to set background...
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 07:20:14PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> 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?
> 

Hmmm, works for me (I've just tried it to be certain). You have to do
a clear(1) after the vidcontrol to repaint the current screen, but ls
listings appear fine as black text on white (well greyish really)
background. You can't use brightwhite (or bright-anything) as the
background, only the foreground.

What version of FreeBSD are you running? the syscons driver appears to
have been completely re-written in 4.0? I'm on 4.0 BTW.

> 	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
> > >                                         
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> 
> -- 
>                                    Gary Kline
>                                     Cray Inc
>                               Seattle, Washington
>                                         
> 
> 
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