Changing Text Color Using VT100

Abed Alnaif · #1 (**permalink**) 11-25-2006

Hi,

I want to change the color of the text. Currently, I am using the following VT100 command, which changes the color of the foreground:

<ESC>[{attr1};...;{attrn}m

The problem is, when I change the color of the foreground, it changes the color of the text as expected, but it also highlights the text gray. Is it possible to change the color of the text wthout the gray highlighting?

System Shock · #2 (**permalink**) 11-25-2006

VT100 is not a command.
I'm not sure what you are doing exactly, but you can change both the forefround and background color within xterm or dtterm. If, say, you want yellow letters on a blue background in a dtterm, you'd do

Code:

dtterm -bg navy -fg yellow

Tornado · #3 (**permalink**) 11-25-2006

Have you tried 1 to 8 ?
It might be one of them

Code:

The following lists standard attributes:

0	Reset all attributes
1	Bright
2	Dim
4	Underscore	
5	Blink
7	Reverse
8	Hidden

	Foreground Colours
30	Black
31	Red
32	Green
33	Yellow
34	Blue
35	Magenta
36	Cyan
37	White

	Background Colours
40	Black
41	Red
42	Green
43	Yellow
44	Blue
45	Magenta
46	Cyan
47	White

bishweshwar · #4 (**permalink**) 11-27-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by System Shock

VT100 is not a command.
I'm not sure what you are doing exactly, but you can change both the forefround and background color within xterm or dtterm. If, say, you want yellow letters on a blue background in a dtterm, you'd do

Code:

dtterm -bg navy -fg yellow

I'm using Solaris 8.0.. Here I'm not able to locate this command. How to conduct this same operation in this Solaris box

System Shock · #5 (**permalink**) 11-27-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by bishweshwar

I'm using Solaris 8.0.. Here I'm not able to locate this command. How to conduct this same operation in this Solaris box

Should be in /usr/dt/bin/dtterm

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