[BRLTTY] mouse and braille

[Samuel Thibault]

Dave Mielke, le Sun 22 Mar 2009 01:00:35 -0400, a écrit :
> [quoted lines by Daniel Dalton on 2009/03/22 at 14:08 +1100]
> 
> >If a sighted person uses my system (the console), with screen, will this show 
> >them actual colours. Like can writing be a certain colour, and can there be a 
> >certain colour background? What package is required for this?
> 
> I use screen and there are colours. As far as I know, there's no general way to 
> set foreground and background colours.

On the linux console you can use setterm -foreground/background.

More generally you can use

tput setf 1

to set the foreground color in a portable way and

tput setb 2

to set the background color in a portable way.

Samuel