X CLI background color?

[soccercisco]

Hi all,

Is there a way to change the color of X's CLI? I am not referring to an emulated terminal (such as xterm), but the tty itself (if this is the appropriate term for the big black NON-GUI screen).

Thx.

[oz]

Sure... you can do so by editing (as root) the /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 file and adding the following line:

/usr/X11R6/bin/xsetroot -solid "#758090"

Of course, you'll need to put in your own choice of color rather than the #758090.

Edit: thought I'd better add that works for xdm, but I'm not sure what display manager you might be using.

[soccercisco]

Hey, thanks for the reply.

I am not using any display manager (xdm, gdm, etc). It is just a plain, old, dumb-terminal (aka "a Big Black screen").

So the code above doesn't work for me.

[soccercisco]

closest thing to what I want to do is:

setterm -inversescreen on

But this, only swaps the colors of the text and the background. And, of course, I don't want to go blind with a white background.

Thanks for any help on this.

[oz]

You might try something like this:

setterm -background blue -foreground white -bold on -store

[soccercisco]

I had tried that in the past, without positive results. However, this time around I logged out and back in a couple of times and got the desired results after the 3rd or 4th try. Thx a lot!