restorepalette(1)                                               Svgalib User Manual                                              restorepalette(1)

NAME

       restorepalette - set the color palette for textmode.

SYNOPSIS

       restorepalette [filename]

DESCRIPTION

       restorepalette without arguments sets the standard VGA palette. This can be useful if it is somehow messed up.

       With a filename argument a custom palette can be loaded (feature added by Charles Blake <chuckb@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu>).

       This  allow  a  user to set up a file that looks like this one (These color map definitions are the same as the default VGA ones.  Alter to
       suite personal tastes). The first column contains the number of the color to set, then follow three integers in range 0  -  63  (lowest  to
       highest intensity) for red, green, blue.

               0  0  0  0   # black
               1  0  0 42   # blue
               2  0 42  0   # green
               3  0 42 42   # cyan
               4 42  0  0   # red
               5 42  0 42   # magenta
               6 42 21  0   # brown
               7 42 42 42   # white
               8 21 21 21   # bright black
               9 21 21 63   # bright blue
              10 21 63 21   # bright green
              11 21 63 63   # bright cyan
              12 63 21 21   # bright red
              13 63 21 63   # bright magenta
              14 63 63 21   # bright brown
              15 63 63 63   # bright white

       The  inline  comments are the only kind of allowed, as I use a little fscanf(3) trick to get them. Blank lines are ok, but not pure comment
       lines. See the comments in my code, also.

       This allows people to set up custom palettes for use in virtual console text modes. I use it all the time. When combined with a  color-syn-
       tax  editor  like  jed-0.97+  or  color-ls,  etc.,  being  able  to  choose  your own text-mode palette is quite a bonus. I set mine up via
       restorepalette /etc/palette in my /etc/rc.  If the program is given the correct permissions, then individual users can have  restorepalette
       ~/.palette  or  some such thing in their shell startup files.  Of course, it shouldn't be done when starting remote shells or when under X,
       so some kind of test that TERM is a virtual console is needed for that case.

SEE ALSO

       svgalib(7), vgagl(7),  libvga.config(5),  vga_setpalvec(3),  dumpreg(1),  convfont(1),  fix132x43(1),  restorefont(1),  restoretextmode(1),
       runx(1), savetextmode(1), setmclk(1), textmode(1).

AUTHOR

       This  manual page was edited by Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>. The exact source of the referenced utility as well as of the
       original documentation is unknown.

       It is very likely that both are at least to some extent are due to Harm Hanemaayer <H.Hanemaayer@inter.nl.net>.

       Occasionally this might be wrong. I hereby asked to be excused by the original author and will happily accept any additions or  corrections
       to this first version of the svgalib manual.

Svgalib (>;= 1.2.11)                                                 2 Aug 1997                                                   restorepalette(1)