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



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