SETVTRGB(1)

🎀 SETVTRGB(1) · General Commands Manual 🎀

okay bestie, this is the manual for setvtrgb, the tool that lets you change your console color map 🌈 it's giving main character energy ✨

💅 NAME 💅

setvtrgb - customize the console color map 🎨

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

setvtrgb vga

setvtrgb FILE|-

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so setvtrgb sets the console color map in all virtual terminals at once, using custom values from a file or from standard input 😭 the vga parameter is the iconic move here because it can also restore the settings that were built into the kernel. full reset, no cap 🫶

when you call it with a filename or -, it expects input laid out like this:

color0_r,color1_r,...,color15_r
color0_g,color1_g,...,color15_g
color0_b,color1_b,...,color15_b

each colorN_{r,g,b} is the red, green, or blue part of that color, written in decimal from 0..255. 💖

bestie, if you want to pre-seed a file in the correct format, just run:

cat /sys/module/vt/parameters/default_{red,grn,blu}

and the colors are basically mapped like this 🦋

+--------+--------+---------+
| Normal | Bright | Color   |
+--------+--------+---------+
|      0 |      8 | Black   |
|      1 |      9 | Red     |
|      2 |     10 | Green   |
|      3 |     11 | Yellow  |
|      4 |     12 | Blue    |
|      5 |     13 | Magenta |
|      6 |     14 | Cyan    |
|      7 |     15 | White   |
+---------------------------+

⚠️ bestie the vibe check is real: the numbers in the 0..255 range are what matter. keep your format exact or it won't land 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

setvtrgb is Copyright © 2011 Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>, with portions by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com> and Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> at Canonical Ltd. 🫶

this manual page was written by Michael Schutte <michi@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but others are allowed to use it too, iykyk 🌷).

okay that's the whole page, bestie 💜 dated July 2011, and it's all SETVTRGB(1) 🦋 now go make your console look iconic ✨🎀