On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 02:13:18PM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Chris Bannister writes: > > > This is in a tty, so don't know what will happen in an xterm or other > > virtual terminal. > > The virtual terminals usually honour ANSI escape sequences. For sure > xterm, the rxvt family and the libvte-based ones do. > > But with virtual terminals you can do something like having a > different background and foreground color (red on black is standard in > my family).
Same on a tty. man setterm -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131214152453.GB9143@tal