Once upon a time, Felix Miata said:
> New problem. Now that the kernel is no longer putting the display to
> sleep and I can start X, I find that setterm command no longer
> applies only to the vttys. It's now coloring my Konsoles, which I do
> not want, and I don't see a way in the setterm man pa
On 2014-06-26 03:03 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:
On 2014-06-25 23:54 (GMT-0700) Samuel Sieb composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
setterm --background blue --foreground white --bold --blank 59 --store
That moved the error:
setterm: argument error: --blank
Perhaps the on/off a
On 2014-06-25 23:54 (GMT-0700) Samuel Sieb composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
I think what's order dependent is a bug in the rewrite to require the
double hyphen where previously a single did the job. I tried this:
setterm --background blue --foreground white --bold --blank 59 --store
Th
On 06/25/2014 11:52 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
I think what's order dependent is a bug in the rewrite to require the
double hyphen where previously a single did the job. I tried this:
setterm --background blue --foreground white --bold --blank 59 --store
That moved the error:
setterm: ar
On 2014-06-26 14:18 (GMT+0800) Christopher Meng composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
setterm --foreground white --bold --background blue --blank 59 --store
produces nearly the same error message:
setterm: argument error: --background
Note that the argument the message apparen
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
>> But yes, backwards incompatible changes suck, although in this case
>> setterm has historically done something non-standard.
>
>
> setterm --foreground white --bold --background blue --blank 59
> --store
>
> produces nearly the same er
On 2014-06-25 15:02 (GMT+0100) Richard W.M. Jones composed:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:06:10AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Was there good reason to change it? For well over a decade across
all distros I've used, I've included this line in root's .bashrc,
always:
setterm -foreground w
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:06:10AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Was there good reason to change it? For well over a decade across
> all distros I've used, I've included this line in root's .bashrc,
> always:
>
> setterm -foreground white -bold -background blue -blank 59 -store
>
> The curren
Was there good reason to change it? For well over a decade across all distros
I've used, I've included this line in root's .bashrc, always:
setterm -foreground white -bold -background blue -blank 59 -store
The current man page has changed to require "--" where "-" was sufficient
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