SETVTRGB
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 3 Mar 2011
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NAME
setvtrgb - set the virtual terminal RGB colors
SYNOPSIS
setvtrgb
[,options/]
vga|FILE|-
DESCRIPTION
The
setvtrgb
command takes a single argument, either the string
vga
, or a path to a file containing the colors to be used by
the Linux virtual terminals.
You can choose to write the colors in decimal or hexadecimal format,
it will be detected on runtime.
Decimal
FILE
format should be exactly 3 lines of 16
comma-separated decimal values for RED, GREEN, and BLUE.
To seed a valid
FILE
:
-
cat /sys/module/vt/parameters/default_{red,grn,blu} > FILE
And then edit the values in
FILE
Hexadecimal
FILE
format should be exactly 16 lines of hex triplets for RED, GREEN and BLUE,
prefixed with a number sign (#). For example:
- #000000
#AA0000
#00AA00
#AA5500
#0000AA
#AA00AA
#00AAAA
#AAAAAA
#555555
#FF5555
#55FF55
#FFFF55
#5555FF
#FF55FF
#55FFFF
#FFFFFF
OPTIONS
- -C, --console=,DEV/
-
the console device to be used;
- -h, --help
-
Prints usage message and exits.
- -V, --version
-
Prints version number and exists.
AUTHOR
The utility is written by Alexey Gladkov, Seth Forshee, Dustin Kirkland.
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Dustin Kirkland.
Index
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