I'm trying to setup X-less (console only) system on my old laptop. Everything works great, except colors of the console. When grub2's "gfxpayload" is not set, all colors appear fine, but when I set gfxpayload=1024x768" it starts with the correct resolution, but all color that's supposed to be white, appears teal (sea green).Interesting thing is that bold text in man pages appears white but not bold. Hyperlinks in links also appear white, although the selected hyperlink appears with a teal background. So the driver apperently can display other colors, but what's stopping it? Erasing "gfxpayload=1024x768" restores the colors back. Changing font's face and size didn't help. Using screen didn't help. GPM's pointer appears as a teal rect.
I am opening this thread because of a problem with GRUB I encountered. I am using Debian Unstable with kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 and GRUB version 1.98+20100804-2 on a Thinkpad T61 with a NVidia Quadro NVS 140m graphics card. What i want to do is use GRUB`s functions "set gfxmode" and "set gfxpayload" to set the resolution of the GRUB boot prompt at 1440x900 (this is the native resolution of my laptop`s screen) and also to set the same resolution for the virtual consoles. I did this before by editing the /etc/grub.d/00_header and /etc/default/grub files and also i edited /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme to remove the GRUB splash image set by default and use the traditional Debian blue theme for GRUB.
This is how i did it in the past and it worked. On my new installation of Debian however i noticed that before installing the proprietary nvidia driver i didn`t have to do that - by default the native resolution of my laptop`s screen was detected and selected for both GRUB`s boot selection screen and for the virtual console.
After installing the nvidia`s driver however it stoped working. I tried the above mentioned method which had worked before but it didn`t help either. I know that during the installation nvidia`s driver disables the nouveau driver which supports KMS so i`m guessing that this is why after i installed the nvidia driver i no longer had my native resolution of 1440x900 for the boot selection screen and for the virtual consoles. However i still cannot understand why manually setting the resolution no longer works - it used to work before with the proprietary driver. Have you experienced such problems before with nvidia cards and GRUB?
I've coma across a problem I have not been able to solve myself. Is there a function in the linux API similar to GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo() on Windows? refer to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=vs.85%29.aspx
I only need to get the current color settings of the active terminal.
Is there a way to color particular words printed on console based on user preference? For example I need to color text 'error' when a particular program is compiled.
I am bored of watching the same white color on my console and want to change everything to green color including the start up.I did something like this Code: setterm -background black - foreground green -store It did change the color but not permanently.
I'm interested in changing the console text color. I can change the console color easily in X, but I'd also like to change the color of the text when my computer first boots up (like right after LILO).Is this something I can modify without rebuilding the kernel? If not, does anyone know where in the source I could make a change like this?
I am using the screen app, and have set bce to on, and issued the following commands to set my background and foreground color: tput setab 4; clear; tput setaf 7; clear;
This temporarily sets everything properly on my screen. However, when I issue any commands that change or set their own background color (for example, when I issue an "ls" command with colorized output), the background color gets lost for any new output and I have to reissue the commands listed above in order to retrieve my background color.Ideally I'd like to keep my background color when issuing these commands, as it serves as a good way to remind me of what environment I am currently issuing commands in.
Just installed 32 bit Lenny 5 in virtual box, a software computer, and virtualbox say that it wants the color depth changed from 24 to 32. Tried manually changing xorg.conf but then X would not start saying: 32 depth was inconsistent with 000 weight.
I am a newer to debian. I want to change the color of the vitrual terminal. I have found the function " setvtrgb ",but I don't know how to mix the color , Only text green and background black...
It's debian testing with lxde.image is attached.In gnome the menu color of smplayer is white but here in lxde it's off-white/yellowish.Is it for theme/icon?It seems it's the color for x-window.
how do we control the display color quality in Debian, similar to setting 16 bit or 32 bit in Windows? I have Lenny on a notebook and Squeeze on a netbook, but cannot find a menu to set it. They both have the default vesa driver.
poking around in the system settings nor Google are cooperating, so: How do I change the colour of the font on my desktop? I'm running Cinnamon (on Sid) and I've got a background with a lot of black in it, which makes the names of icons impossible to read. I know what everything is, of course, but I'd still like to be able to see what it is.
print options set to color in both OS printer-options dialogue and CUPS browser dialogue. printer successfully prints color test page from CUPS browser dialogue. openoffice Writer print-preview shows document in color. openoffice Writer printer-dialogue options set to color.
I am getting more and more comfortable working with the shell, thus I would like to change its prompt color to my liking, as it will be easier for me to distinguish commands vs. outputs.
I've read a couple of instructions of how to change the .bashrc file and am familiar with what the codes in PS1 mean. Except, this file can be intimidating to newbie eyes.
Where exactly on the file is it that I need to make the change?
Here is what I am trying to do. I would like my prompt to like exactly like the prompt I use in Backtrack - which consist in two different colors, one for the host and another for the pwd. Here is what the Backtrack .bashrc file looks like:
# /etc/profile: This file contains system-wide defaults used by # all Bourne (and related) shells. # Set the values for some environment variables: export MINICOM="-c on" export MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/bin/man:/usr/share/man export HOSTNAME="`cat /etc/HOSTNAME`"
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I also read that in order to have the same results when I log in as root, I will have to copy the modified .bashrc file into /root
I have a problem for which I imagined a radical solution. Okay, I have a script that uses Alltray's "menu" feature as an interface. It's working greatly, EXCEPT sometimes lxpanel (the panel and tray of LXDE) has a hiccup and restarts, at which point the alltray menu is still running, but the icon is gone from the tray.
I want to somehow test the screen for the existence of a color, a color that is likely only to exist in the icon I've chosen for the chat menu. If the color exists on my screen, then the script can continue to do nothing, but if the color doesn't exist, then that means the alltray icon with my custom icon has disappeared, at which point I should have my bash script close the alltray process and start it again.
How to accomplish the checking of my screen for the existence of a particular color? To simplify, I already have simple screenshot scripts (scrot is good for it), so it would be fine if I could simply analyze an image.
I'm using Robolinux Cinnamon which is Debian 8.2 (fantasic OS btw). I usually use a blank, black wallpaper but the default color of the icon font is black. I googled this question for about an hour before I came here. How to change the icon font color on the desktop to white?
Using Squeeze and a Canon Pixma IP4600 Printer. The color on the printed pages used to be true and now it isn't, it still print is color just not the correct colors.I am color deficient or color challenged (what used to be called color blind) which dosen't mean I can't tell the difference between what is on the screen and what is printed It's not the printer as I have tested it with other Linux and a windows system and it's good.
Just upgraded to Debian Jessie. I'm having a problem with the desktop and lockscreen that I never had before in Debian 7. Whenever I open the laptop to wake it up, there is very bad discoloration of the background. (screenshot : [URL] ..... )
Hardware is an IBM Lenovo T410 with no customizations. The graphics are factory nvidia. 3D acceleration works flawlessly, and I have no other issues except this background problem.
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$ nvidia-detect Detected NVIDIA GPUs: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT218M [NVS 3100M] [10de:0a6c] (rev a2) Your card is supported by the default drivers and legacy driver series 304.
I have a mfc-440cn installed and working in Debian wheezy 7.4 (the last one) but I cant fix to it for printing in grey, I was using the pdf default reader and send some pages to printing indicating not to print them in color just greys colors but doesn't respect that order, it prints full color. When I see the conf page for the printer it stills have the configuration I did indicating to print grey but it ignores it and print as it wants (full color). Note that I installed thr mfc according the instructions from the brother support page with no trouble but is just that it only wants to print full color.
How can I start a program from tty1 console text mode to be executed in tty2 console text mode? Actualy I would like to start a program (chat client cli program) in tty8 automaticaly when linux PC boots.
