One time error that didn't bug me at all but was kinda neat

ConnorBehan · 2012-05-23 21:00:27

One time when I logged out of xfce and returned to my framebuffer console, I got this.

It is usually white on black instead of red on black. Nothing out of the ordinary was in my dmesg or Xorg.0.log and I haven't been able to make it do this since. All other ttys were white on black, only tty1 from which I had called startx turned to red. When I shut down, the text became white again once it left runlevel 3. Thoughts on this? It is one of the stranger things I have seen.

Last edited by ConnorBehan (2012-05-23 21:09:14)

Trilby · 2012-05-23 21:19:58

Something may have caused X to output an escape sequence (eg "\e[31m") that would change the color. I'm not sure what might do this by accident, but if desired it'd be very easy to get any application to do this.

DSpider · 2012-05-23 21:56:59

Or you can have it tailed in a transparent terminal on the desktop:

alias startx='startx &> ~/.Xoutput'

$ aterm -T bgterm -tr +sb -bl -g 150x20+33+888 -fn "-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-7-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" -fg black -bg white -cr "#F2F2FE" -e tail -F -n +3 ~/.Xoutput

Easier to copy-paste too. Just select the text and use the mouse scroll button.

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#1 2012-05-23 21:00:27

One time error that didn't bug me at all but was kinda neat

#2 2012-05-23 21:19:58

Re: One time error that didn't bug me at all but was kinda neat

#3 2012-05-23 21:56:59

Re: One time error that didn't bug me at all but was kinda neat

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