[techtalk] Text Color/Blinking

[Phil Savoie]

Thank you, Jeff and Laurel.  I have been able to do what I want with
your collective info!

Phil

Jeff Frasca wrote:
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> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Phil Savoie wrote:
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> > Hi All,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone had any idea as to how to make text in an
> > /etc/issue file a different colour than the norm.  Also, I would like to
> > make it blink as well.  Any thoughts?
> 
> The vanilla getty program (/sbin/getty) supports the escape sequence
> \0x1b (which is the ASCII Escape), which allows you to embed the codes
> in console_codes(4) manpage in the /etc/issue file.  The codes for
> blinking, underlining and colorizing are in there.  So, if you wanted to
> make a square red, you might put something like this in the /etc/issue
> file:
> 
> "\0x1b[41m " (notice the space at the end.. that is to get the colored
> character).  Also, \033 does the same thing \0x1b (\0xnn means a hex code,
> \0nn means an octal code), and this will also work with mgetty.
> 
> agetty doesn't support this, however, it is still possible.  If you are
> using elvis (vi clone), you can type ":display hex" to get into a really
> nice hex editor mode, and from there it is easy enough to embed the
> actual escape character that gets sent to the terminal.  In elvis the
> command would be "^X1b".  You can do this in the normal text editor
> mode, and the character will be *displayed* as `^['.  This does work with
> agetty, and should work with any other getty, if it doesn't support the
> above style escape.
> 
> Also, if you have a Mandrake 7.0 (and probably 7.1) computer around,
> check out what getty program it uses and what the /etc/issue file looks
> like -- the issue file has a really cool ASCII Tux, using the techniques
> you are asking about.
> 
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> You're Welcome, I hope this helps.
> 
> Jeff
> 
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