***** CHANGING DEFAULT MONITOR COLORS - NOT POSSIBLE ?!?!?!? *****
david.a.berk
dab at cbnewsb.cb.att.com
Thu May 9 02:16:03 AEST 1991
In article <1991May2.183759.2485 at cbfsb.att.com>, dab at cbnewsb.cb.att.com (david.a.berk) writes:
> Has anyone written a program that allows someone to alter the
> default colors of the console ?
>
> Dave Berk
> ..!att!emdbl1!dab
>
In article <1991May3.220534.8867 at cbfsb.att.com> mtd at cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Mario T DeFazio) writes:
> If you are using UNIX SVR3.2, you can use tput(1).
>
> The following table shows the colors that can be set with
> the shell command line
>
> tput p1 p2
>
> where p1 is
> 'setf' to set foreground color
> 'setb' to set background color
>
> and p2 is the numeric color code.
>
> p2 color
> --- -----
> 0 black
> 1 blue
> 2 green
> 3 cyan
> 4 red
> 5 magenta
> 6 brown
> 7 white
>
>This is not documented anywhere that I know of.
>I looked at the terminfo description for AT386 to figure it out.
>The raw escape sequences are given in the display(7) manual page.
>You might also look at the tput(1) and terminfo(4) manual pages.
>
In article <1991May06.143757.20161 at chinet.chi.il.us>les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
> In article <1991May3.220534.8867 at cbfsb.att.com> mtd at cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Mario T DeFazio) writes:
>
> > tput p1 p2
> >where p1 is
> > 'setf' to set foreground color
> > 'setb' to set background color
>
> The "background color" in this case refers to the background of each
> subsequent character that is displayed, not the part of the screen
> that is normally black. The difference is significant in that the
> blank space beyond the end of a line is not re-drawn, nor is the
> blank line at the bottom of the screen as text normally scrolls.
> Thus if you change your background color you end up with a horrible
> looking mess that is partly your chosen color and partly black.
> Also, the terminfo init sequence always resets the white-on-black
> mode, so running anything that uses curses will undo the color setting.
> Has anyone come up with a way that actually works to get a decent
> white-on-blue screen besides dialing in from a DOS terminal program?
> I suppose running kermit under VP/ix looping between two serial
> ports would work at the expense of all the machine's idle time.
>
> Les Mikesell
> les at chinet.chi.il.us
>
>
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