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- From: jstewart@Software.Mitel.COM (John Stewart)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help with reverse video on login screen.....what's the key combo
- Keywords: video, help, reverse
- Message-ID: <12610@roland>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 15:00:50 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.140028.6218@sdf.lonestar.org>
- Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
- Lines: 27
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- In article <1992Aug13.140028.6218@sdf.lonestar.org> jjunker@sdf.lonestar.org (Jon Junker) writes:
- >Way back when I can faintly remember of a key combination that would take the
- >startup (login) screen and reverse it. My preference is white on black and
- >all of the screen here are black on white.
-
- I'm going to post this, as it would have been of interest to me
- a few months ago, before I went digging myself...
-
- It is the getty that controls the way things appear and act on
- a port. The /etc/gettytab file controls the way getty works.
-
- The following gives us white on black. The commented "default"
- is the standard black on white.
-
- #default:\
- # :ap:lm=\r\n%h %t\72 :p8:sp#9600:
- #
- # default changed to provide white on black for console getty.
- # J. Stewart 10 June 1992.
- #
- default:\
- :ap:lm=\E[q\r\n%h login\72 :p8:sp#9600:
-
-
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