On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Hal (DCI) wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Fred Smith wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 02:23:49PM +0530, Salil Khamkar wrote:
> > > Hi ,
> > > I want to change my default console color from black and white to blue and
> > > white . Can some one please tell me as to how this can be done . Also how
> >
> > setterm -foreground white -background blue
> >
> > > can i enable this at boot time ??
> >
> > Add it either to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local, or to the shell startup scripts
> > in your home directory (what those scripts' filenames are depends on
> > what shell you're running, I've added it to the .login in my home directory
> > since I use tcsh).
> >
>
> Well Fred...
>
> That works great, till you run pine. Then it turns back to white/black.
>
> --Hal.
>
This is because you need to use -store, e.g.
setterm -foreground white -background blue -store
I use this all the time.
Anthony
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