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sukolyn

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Registered: 2024-02-14

Posts: 156

agetty: some troubles

hi,

I put some colors in /etc/issue, but I cannot get white, neither lightgray

$ LC_ALL=C agetty -V
agetty: invalid option -- 'V'                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Try 'agetty --help' for more information.

-V is in the man page, but not in the --help.
plus, in the man page, -h refers to --help and --flow-control

$ LC_ALL=C getty --version
agetty from util-linux 2.40-rc2 (flow control, hints, issue, issue.d, keyboard mode, reload, syslog, widechar)

here is /etc/issue (changes in /etc/issue can easily be seen using agetty --show-issue, no need to restart anything)

\e{black}black
\e{blink}blink\e{reset}
\e{blue}blue
\e{bold}bold\e{reset}
\e{brown}brown
\e{cyan}cyan
\e{darkgray}darkgray
\e{gray}gray
\e{green}green
\e{halfbright}halbright
\e{lightblue}lightblue
\e{lightcyan}lightcyan
\e{lightgray}lightgray
\e{lightgreen}lightgreen
\e{lightmagenta}lightmagenta
\e{lightred}lightred
\e{magenta}magenta
\e{red}red
\e{reset}reset
\e{reverse}reverse\e{reset}
\e{yellow}yellow
\e{white}white

that, more or less depending on terminal used, correctly print evreything, except white and lightgray, that print lightgraylightgray, and whitewhite using previous \e{indication}

Last edited by sukolyn (2024-03-26 13:49:44)