Change / reverse console background

[Garry Ricketson]

This may be what seems really basic, and it probably is,
but searches seem to only say about xterm, or others,
 How can I change the backgroung and text, for the "console", 
Not, in Xorg, and using xterm, but' the main console,
 I would like to make it a white background , and black text,..
instead of black with white text.
 

 Thank you, anyone ,...

[Jean-Baptiste Boric]

Hi,

I am not aware of a simpler way to achieve this, but the MINIX VGA console supports ANSI escape codes. This should do the trick :

echo -e "\e[30;47m\e[2J"

However, any command which outputs ANSI escape codes is likely to revert the console back to the default colors.

[Garry Ricketson]

Thanks for the reply,
 I tried this, but all it did was change the prompt:
to the same, :

\e[30;47m\e[2J:$

On mine.  
 What I am looking for would give the entire screen a white back ground,
with black text, including the prompt.
 Thanks

On Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 5:54:17 PM UTC+1, Garry Ricketson wrote:

This may be what seems really basic, and it probably is,
but searches seem to only say about xterm, or others,

 How can I change the background and text, for the "console", 

[Garry Ricketson]

Apology, I misunderstood, and was trying the command from
the command line, at the prompt,...I just now added it to
my .profile  file, and it works, now , thanks a whole bunch.
You are right though, 

However, any command which outputs ANSI escape codes is likely to revert the console back to the default colors

I wonder how I could make it permenant.
thanks
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On Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 5:54:17 PM UTC+1, Garry Ricketson wrote:

[Jean-Baptiste Boric]

However, any command which outputs ANSI escape codes is likely to revert the console back to the default colors

I wonder how I could make it permenant.

I guess you could tweak the shell prompt to echo the first ANSI escape code on each prompt, but that goes beyond my shell-fu knowledge. I do know it's shell-specific, with bash it's the PS1 environment variable for example.