Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:35:36 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: Modify setterm color palette |
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On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:16:20PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:15:23PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > drivers/char/vt.c: default_red, default_grn, default_blu > > > > You can also change them with `echo -en "\e]PXRRGGBB"`, where X is a hex > > digit (range 0-F), and RGB are the components. Check console_codes(4) and > > go figure. :) > > I for one prefer the standard VT100 yellow instead of brown, and I > have an escape sequence to do that similar to the one you show above. > > However, there's one major flaw - programs recently (and by that I mean > FC2-like recently) have started to do complete console resets, which > result in the users settings being completely wiped out. > > For instance, I have: > > if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then > echo -ne '\e]P3aaaa00' > fi > > in the bash login scripts. Run mutt 1.4 and that gets wiped out. > Previous version of mutt (1.2?) didn't do this. > > So, in essence, this is a completely useless solution. I think we need > a separate escape sequence to modify the system default so that peoples > preferences do not get inadvertently wiped out by programs.
Why not add an escape sequence to lock/unlock the palette ? It might be simpler, and we could even stack the locks to ensure recursive protection.
> (I have also considered writing a module to locate the default palette > and "correct" it.) > > -- > Russell King > Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ > maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
Regards, Willy
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