SCREEN.LUA(8)

💖 SCREEN.LUA(8) 💖

okay so this is the section 8 manual page for screen.lua, straight out of the System Manager's Manual, and it's literally the bootloader screen manipulation module. no cap. 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

screen.lua — bootloader screen manipulation module. short, iconic, does exactly what it says on the tin. 💅

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

screen.lua contains functionality for manipulating the screen. This includes functionality such as clearing the screen, moving the cursor, and setting foreground/background colors using sequences provided by color.lua(8). it's giving screen glow-up toolkit, bestie. ✨

Before using the functionality provided by screen.lua, it must be included with a statement such as the following:

local screen = require("screen")

🎀 the exported variables 🎀

The following variables are exported from screen.lua:

• screen.default_x — the x component of the default cursor position. 💖
• screen.default_y — the y component of the default cursor position. 🦋

💅 the exported functions 💅

The following functions are exported from screen.lua:

• screen.clear() — clears the screen. screen.clear() will do nothing if a serial boot is detected. 😭
• screen.setcursor(x, y) — sets the cursor position to x, y. screen.setcursor() will do nothing if a serial boot is detected. 🎀
• screen.setforeground(color_value) — sets the foreground color to color_value, which should be a constant defined in color.lua(8). screen.setforeground() will do nothing if color is disabled. 🔥
• screen.setbackground(color_value) — sets the background color to color_value, which should be a constant defined in color.lua(8). screen.setbackground() will do nothing if color is disabled. 🌈
• screen.defcolor() — sets the default color scheme, as defined by color.default(). screen.defcolor() will do nothing if color is disabled. 👑
• screen.defcursor() — sets the default cursor position to that defined by screen.default_x, screen.default_y. ⭐

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• color.lua(8) — the color lore companion page, go read it bestie. 💜

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• The screen.lua file was originally written by Pedro Souza <pedrosouza@FreeBSD.org>. 🫶
• Later work and this manual page was done by Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>. 💖

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okay bestie, that's the whole page! 💖 this cutie is from Debian, dated March 29, 2025, and it's SCREEN.LUA(8) — mwah! 💅✨