Re: ANSI bg colour outside of prompt area

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2015-02-22 17:44:27 -0800, Kurtis Rader wrote:
> I have several Linux virtual-machines and, yes, the emulated serial
> console has a hard-coded black background. Boo-hoo.

Hard-coded? Not for the standard Linux console (a.k.a. VT 1-6).
The color can be changed with:

  setterm --background white --foreground black --store

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