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Old 10-11-2004
Question like to have fun in terminal
Hai Friends

I have installed FreeBSD in my system... I have installed it to work in text mode don't have the GUI. The default text color is Black background with White Foreground. I want it to be with Black background with Green Foreground. How could i do that.

Thanks in advance
Collins
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Old 10-12-2004
what shell are you using?
# 3  
Old 10-13-2004
my shell
its csh

Expecting your reply
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Old 10-13-2004
Yikes collins. First things first, move away from csh. Its less powerful than other shells and much less fun to work with for that matter. Download pdk (public domain Korn shell) or switch over to bash or bourne. You will be much happieer in the long run,
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Old 10-14-2004
zsh kicksass

Code:
vidcontrol green black

Check the vidcontrol(1) man page. There are other color settings.

The colors won't persist after reboot and each VT (Virtual Terminal, the things you can switch with ALT+F*) has independant vidcontrol settings. So if you want the colors to be set automatically, you could add something like that to your ~/.profile (or ~/.zprofile if using zsh):

Code:
case "$TERM" in
cons*) vidcontrol green black ;;
esac

(the stuff around the vidcontrol command is to not use vidcontrol on terminals that aren't syscons (the FreeBSD console driver) cause that would show an error msg.)
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