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Is there a way to alter the colors used in TTY consoles on Linux?

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By "alter colors", I mean something like change black from to , and by "TTY console", I mean what you get when you do Ctrl+Alt+F1 from X11, not a terminal emulator like or . I'm using Arch Linux, but I think it has more to do with the program providing the TTY ( , I think).

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This is entirely possible and is something I do on my Arch setup. You could drop something like this in a shell script and have it run at login: The to (base 16) are the escape sequences you need to set the 16 (8 half bright, 8 bright) colours. Afte…

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