Re: Modify setterm color palette

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sun Jan 15 2006 - 07:14:01 EST



>I've been looking in the kernel sources in the "console.c" and I think
>spotted the
>place where the colours are set but it seems to me that a more appropiate
>place to do such things would be the terminfo db.
>
>Any hints ?

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'm using radeonfb under Suse/amd64 if that makes any difference...

I am not sure if changing colors works with fb, try your best.



Jan Engelhardt
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