Comments on: Theming the Linux console http://blog.nix.is/theming-the-linux-console Come for the thoughts, stay for the rants Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:19:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Paul Collins http://blog.nix.is/theming-the-linux-console/comment-page-1#comment-392 Paul Collins Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:04:57 +0000 http://blog.nix.is/?p=9#comment-392 I played with the escape sequences, but I didn't fancy adding yet more code to my login scripts. It turns out that changing the default console palette globally can be achieved with an ioctl. Here is some sample code that changes palette slot 7 ("normal white") to AntiqueWhite from X11's rgb.txt. http://ondioline.org/~paul/palette-diddler.c I played with the escape sequences, but I didn’t fancy adding yet more code to my login scripts. It turns out that changing the default console palette globally can be achieved with an ioctl. Here is some sample code that changes palette slot 7 (“normal white”) to AntiqueWhite from X11’s rgb.txt.

http://ondioline.org/~paul/palette-diddler.c

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