Console Text Color Change

Mercurius · 05-15-2006, 08:35 PM

Ok ... basic question ... how can I change the text of my console to green?

Slacker_Rex · 05-15-2006, 09:27 PM

Not sure what distro you use, but with Slackware, a file:

/etc/DIR_COLORS

is what controls this.

If you google some for it, it is not too hard to find more than you ever wanted to know about how to customize your shell.

dive · 05-16-2006, 12:41 AM

usually in .Xresources you can specify colours for your term. Eg:

Code:

aterm*foreground: green
aterm*background: black

xterm*foreground: green
xterm*background: black

urxvt*foreground: green
urxvt*background: black

etc. man xterm or xterm --help for full options.

After changing the file you may need to do:

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

Mercurius · 05-16-2006, 01:49 AM

No no ... I meant in bash, without GUI ...

stitchman · 05-16-2006, 02:13 AM

theres also a nice little program called Color Wrapper, search on freshmeat.net for it. It adds tasteful color to common commands to brighten up the CLI, it also works for terminals in Xwindows too.

dugan · 05-16-2006, 03:32 AM

I think you'll enjoy this:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-289943.html

It's some really amazing console customization.

dive · 05-16-2006, 07:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mercurius

No no ... I meant in bash, without GUI ...

Probably setterm is what you want:

Code:

setterm
  [ -term terminal_name ]
  [ -reset ]
  [ -initialize ]
  [ -cursor [on|off] ]
  [ -repeat [on|off] ]
  [ -appcursorkeys [on|off] ]
  [ -linewrap [on|off] ]
  [ -default ]
  [ -foreground black|blue|green|cyan|red|magenta|yellow|white|default ]
  [ -background black|blue|green|cyan|red|magenta|yellow|white|default ]
  [ -ulcolor black|grey|blue|green|cyan|red|magenta|yellow|white ]
  [ -ulcolor bright blue|green|cyan|red|magenta|yellow|white ]
  [ -hbcolor black|grey|blue|green|cyan|red|magenta|yellow|white ]
  [ -hbcolor bright blue|green|cyan|red|magenta|yellow|white ]
  [ -inversescreen [on|off] ]
  [ -bold [on|off] ]
  [ -half-bright [on|off] ]
  [ -blink [on|off] ]
  [ -reverse [on|off] ]
  [ -underline [on|off] ]
  [ -store ]
  [ -clear [all|rest] ]
  [ -tabs [ tab1 tab2 tab3 ... ] ]      (tabn = 1-160)
  [ -clrtabs [ tab1 tab2 tab3 ... ] ]   (tabn = 1-160)
  [ -regtabs [1-160] ]
  [ -blank [0-60] ]
  [ -dump   [1-NR_CONSOLES] ]
  [ -append [1-NR_CONSOLES] ]
  [ -file dumpfilename ]
  [ -msg [on|off] ]
  [ -msglevel [0-8] ]
  [ -powersave [on|vsync|hsync|powerdown|off] ]
  [ -powerdown [0-60] ]
  [ -blength [0-2000] ]
  [ -bfreq freqnumber ]

It's called from /etc/rc.d/rc.M