From: Mika Pekka Liljeberg (liljeber@kruuna.Helsinki.FI)
Date: 06/22/92


From: liljeber@kruuna.Helsinki.FI (Mika Pekka Liljeberg)
Subject: Re: Default screen color
Date: 22 Jun 1992 09:27:43 GMT

To:
In article <1992Jun22.021926.28483@Princeton.EDU> afriend@dew.Princeton.EDU (A. Friend) wrote:
> I would like to set the foreground color to something other than
> white. I can do it using setterm -foreground, but a lot of programs
> will restore the foreground color after a while (emacs, vi, more, etc).
> Is there a way to set it permanently, for example, compiling it in the
> kernel?

setterm -foreground <foobar> -store

The -store option makes fore/background colors permanent for
the current virtual console.

        Mika