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incertia

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Registered: 2014-10-25

Posts: 49

What is changing my virtual console background?

I vaguely remember toying around with this 4 years ago, something related to linux framebuffer, but now I have completely forgotten what is controlling this behavior.

You can visibly see in the image below that my login console obviously starts with a very dark background and then after login it changes to some dark gray. What could be going on?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 74,307

Re: What is changing my virtual console background?

The theme from the (abandoned) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zplug/ ?
Generally some OSC, posibly in your $PS1 variable, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zsh#Colors

The colors of the terminal itself  would be set w/ sth. like

if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then
  /bin/echo -e "
  \e]P0282a2e
  \e]P1a54242
  \e]P28c9440
  \e]P3de935f
  \e]P45f819d
  \e]P585678f
  \e]P65e8d87
  \e]P7707880
  \e]P8373b41
  \e]P9cc6666
  \e]PAb5bd68
  \e]PBf0c674
  \e]PC81a2be
  \e]PDb294bb
  \e]PE8abeb7
  \e]PFc5c8c6
  "
  # get rid of artifacts
  clear
fi

in your shell rc, see https://terminal.sexy

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