[gentoo-user] Tool for changing onsole colors ?

[gentoo-user] Tool for changing onsole colors ?

[Enrico Weigelt]

Hi folks,

is there any tool for changing the colors of the linux console ?
(or at least invert them).

I'm currently sitting in the garden with my notebook, the sun is
shining bright, and its really hard to read anything ...


thx
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Re: [gentoo-user] Tool for changing onsole colors ?

[Alexander Skwar]

Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> is there any tool for changing the colors of the linux console ?
> (or at least invert them).

Hm, you're really talking about the console?

If you were talking about an "xterm", it might be easier - at
least with gnome-terminal, it's easy to change all the colors
on the fly. Other terminals might have the same ability.

But as far as the real console is concerned - no clue.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Tool for changing onsole colors ?

[Mick]

On 21/06/06, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:

> If you were talking about an "xterm", it might be easier - at
> least with gnome-terminal, it's easy to change all the colors
> on the fly. Other terminals might have the same ability.
>
> But as far as the real console is concerned - no clue.

Can't remember exactly, but you can change the framebuffer with a more
suitable background image/colour so as to improve the contrast with
the font?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Tool for changing onsole colors ?

[Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman]

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Mick wrote:
> Can't remember exactly, but you can change the framebuffer with a more
> suitable background image/colour so as to improve the contrast with
> the font?

use ansi escape secuences.

printf "\n\n\033[1;33;42mHORRIBLE MIXTURE OF COLORS\033[0;37;40m\n\n\n"

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