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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [BL] setterm (was Re: Printing from Abiword in BL2)
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:37:50 -0600 (CST)

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Ron Clarke wrote:

> > What colour did you want then? Blue?
> > --------------------------------
> > setterm -background blue ; clear
> > --------------------------------
>
> I tried that with "cyan":
>
> Impressive ! I also tried setterm -foreground blue ; clear
> and got a most comfortable screen.
> Then raising MC and back returned the screen to white on black.
> There must be a man page somewhere for setterm.

That's interesting to know. For what it's worth, I think the place where
you set font color (not background color, though, I think) is in
~/.bashrc.

James




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