Customize tty colors....

[Furycd001]

No need to reboot. I tried one of the commands (echo -en "\e]P0222222") in my tty and it kinda worked. It changed the background colour, the foreground stayed white.
This changes the normal foreground (colour 7" from lightgray to a kind of orangey-brown: echo -en "\e]P7dd7733"
So I put all the above (except for the if and fi lines) in a text file and sourced it in bash, and it changed the fireground to bright white.

So the script works on my Xubuntu 18.04.

Hmm. Why am I not on 18.10???

Thank you very much for checking & for adding some detail ^^* Here is two screenshots showing what both sets of colors look like. I'm a tad confused so sorry in advanced if I I'm stupid in any way....

[Furycd001]

Do you have a ~/.bash_profile file?
If you have a ~/.bash_profile, tty will read that first I think.

In my home folder I have..

• .bash_history
• .bash_logout
• .bashrc
• .bashrc

I can see no ~/.bash_profile....

[Holger_Gehrke]

.bashrc is for interactive non-login shells. login-shells don't read it unless .profile or .bash_profile tells them to (which the ~/.profile in Ubuntu does by default, I think).

Instead of using unreadable (and probably not portable) escape sequences, you might want to take a look at the program tput and the manual for terminfo to get the names and possible values of terminal capabilities to use with tput. For example:

tput colors # outputs the number of colours the terminal can use (8 on the console of my machine, numbered 0 to 7)
tput set_ab 0 # set background to colour 0
tput set_af 7 # set foreground to colour 7
tput initc 0 1000 0 0 # initialize colour 0 to a bright red (rgb, components from 0 to 1000)

Holger

[Furycd001]

.bashrc is for interactive non-login shells. login-shells don't read it unless .profile or .bash_profile tells them to (which the ~/.profile in Ubuntu does by default, I think).

Instead of using unreadable (and probably not portable) escape sequences, you might want to take a look at the program tput and the manual for terminfo to get the names and possible values of terminal capabilities to use with tput. For example:

tput colors # outputs the number of colours the terminal can use (8 on the console of my machine, numbered 0 to 7)
tput set_ab 0 # set background to colour 0
tput set_af 7 # set foreground to colour 7
tput initc 0 1000 0 0 # initialize colour 0 to a bright red (rgb, components from 0 to 1000)

Holger

Thanks for the suggestion & for going into some detail. Going to look into this now....

[Furycd001]

After some research I have found that this can be accomplished, but it is not easy & would take a fair amount of time / work. Marking this thread as solved....