Customize tty colors....

[Furycd001]

HI Guys.. How would I go about converting "this" xresources color scheme to work with a tty ?? I use tty1 a lot and would like to have it match my xfce4-terminal & xterm colors. Many thanks in advanced for replying & helping....

[NM5TF]

@Jonny6...

if you are talking about changing the default colors in terminal, you can edit the
preferences to use whatever you like...or add a background image....screenie
attached showing what I use....

or maybe I misunderstood what you meant....

tommy

[Furycd001]

I think you have misunderstood. What I want is to change the colors within a "TTY" to match the color scheme in my gui terminal. I'm pretty sure that I have seen it done before. I just don't know how to do it myself....

[NM5TF]

simple search found this.....have NOT tried it myself.....

add this to your ~/.bashrc file....change colors as needed....

if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
    echo -en "\e]P0222222" #black
    echo -en "\e]P8222222" #darkgrey
    echo -en "\e]P1803232" #darkred
    echo -en "\e]P9982b2b" #red
    echo -en "\e]P25b762f" #darkgreen
    echo -en "\e]PA89b83f" #green
    echo -en "\e]P3aa9943" #brown
    echo -en "\e]PBefef60" #yellow
    echo -en "\e]P4324c80" #darkblue
    echo -en "\e]PC2b4f98" #blue
    echo -en "\e]P5706c9a" #darkmagenta
    echo -en "\e]PD826ab1" #magenta
    echo -en "\e]P692b19e" #darkcyan
    echo -en "\e]PEa1cdcd" #cyan
    echo -en "\e]P7ffffff" #lightgrey
    echo -en "\e]PFdedede" #white
    clear #for background artifacting
fi

found here http://archive.is/QSYHd

tommy

[Furycd001]

simple search found this.....have NOT tried it myself.....

add this to your ~/.bashrc file....change colors as needed....

if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
    echo -en "\e]P0222222" #black
    echo -en "\e]P8222222" #darkgrey
    echo -en "\e]P1803232" #darkred
    echo -en "\e]P9982b2b" #red
    echo -en "\e]P25b762f" #darkgreen
    echo -en "\e]PA89b83f" #green
    echo -en "\e]P3aa9943" #brown
    echo -en "\e]PBefef60" #yellow
    echo -en "\e]P4324c80" #darkblue
    echo -en "\e]PC2b4f98" #blue
    echo -en "\e]P5706c9a" #darkmagenta
    echo -en "\e]PD826ab1" #magenta
    echo -en "\e]P692b19e" #darkcyan
    echo -en "\e]PEa1cdcd" #cyan
    echo -en "\e]P7ffffff" #lightgrey
    echo -en "\e]PFdedede" #white
    clear #for background artifacting
fi

found here http://archive.is/QSYHd

tommy

Nice find dude. That's actually where I''d seen it done before ^^* Gona go give it a try. Thanks again dude....

[Furycd001]

Ok ok.. Soooo I just tried what was on the link above and I don't think it worked. I added the code and changed the colors, yet the colors in the tty still look the same and have not changed. Any ideas ??

[NM5TF]

did you reboot after ???

[Furycd001]

did you reboot after ???

Yep I rebooted and then checked. Here's a copy of what I put at the bottom of my .bashrc file....

if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
    echo -en "\e]P282828"
    echo -en "\e]Pca1444"
    echo -en "\e]P789aba"
    echo -en "\e]Pb3879f"
    echo -en "\e]P94469b"
    echo -en "\e]Pcb6fa1"
    echo -en "\e]Pfb6e93"
    echo -en "\e]Pcf98c1"
    echo -en "\e]P98218e"
    echo -en "\e]Pcb515d"
    echo -en "\e]P5a87b1"
    echo -en "\e]P9c61ab"
    echo -en "\e]P9a77b1"
    echo -en "\e]Pf2a297"
    echo -en "\e]Pf4436f"
    echo -en "\e]Pebdbb2"
    echo -en "\e]Pf2f2f2"
    clear #for background artifacting
fi

[The Cog]

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 foreground to bright white.

So the script works on my Xubuntu 18.04.

Hmm. Why am I not on 18.10???

[again?]

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