Eugene  Aug 15

Inspired by the @rl_dane post (https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01K2HZ6FD6NY14CZS63EPPNKX5) about "Cool computers always have/had a light background. This is where I live now. I ain't movin'" — I remember about some words, I've read in the man 4 vt.

I've already changed default console font via vidcontrol, so why not to try change a colors for the text terminals too?  

There are some sysctl variables, which can be changed via /boot/loader.conf — 16 variables for 8 base colors and for the 8 bright versions of the same colors. And  the same 16 colors are listed in the description of my beloved Solarized color theme!

So, I just entered the necessary hex values to the /boot/loader.conf and rebooted. Result was far from ideal — somehow, the red/blue and cyan/brown colors are swapped (see the pic 1), despite all color codes are matched with corresponding hex color codes  .

Ok, I entered blue hex color code to the variable with red code and vice versa. And the text descriptions of colors from "vidcontrol show" got the right colors. Despite, some bright colors displayed as shades of grey (see pic. 2).

Don't know why, maybe it is bug in the Intel's i915kms or in the vt driver  …

The last change I've made — swapped the white and black color definitions to get something like Solarized Light. The result is on the pic. 3  

#FreeBSD #Solarized #SolarizedLight #terminal

Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵
@evgandr @rl_dane how odd. I've been searching around a bit but can't find out either why some colors become grey.
Aug 15 at 11:15amWeb
Show threadJdeBPAug 15

@bazkie @rl_dane

The simplest explanation is that @evgandr entered Solarized BGR values for positions 8 to 15 the first time around, too. (-:

586e75 is, after all, supposed to be grey.

#FreeBSD #vt #RGB #colour

Show threadbenAug 15
@JdeBP @bazkie @rl_dane @evgandr Yes, I believe that’s how the Solarized themes are intended to work. The theme doesn’t have multiple shades of green etc, just one; so it uses the terminal’s ‘bright’ colours for additional shades of grey.
Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵Aug 15

@JdeBP @rl_dane @evgandr oh wait, I see. I looked at the "lightblue" value, and it should be blue (cb4b16) - but that's ending up in color 13 (lightmagenta), because the color list is wrongly ordered, just like with the left column colors!

the other light color codes indeed denote grey, (except red), but I didn't notice because of the wrong ordering; I stopped looking after the blue one didn't seem to work correctly :)

Show threadEugene  Aug 15

@bazkie @JdeBP @rl_dane Aha, looks like it is the problem! I misinterpreted the table for #Solarized colors and there no some of light colors — just shades of grey  Thanks for pointing to me about this!  

I rewrite definitions in the loader.conf and even the bright colors are displaying properly now in #FreeBSD text terminals

Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵Aug 15
@evgandr @JdeBP @rl_dane yay!