Framebuffer colorscheme chooser persistance

[mrneilypops]

I would like to make my choice of framebuffer colour persistant between boots.
I really like Baconator Reichswolf...easy on the eyes!

What would be the recommended way to do this?

[DebianJoe]

In the script you use to launch the framebuffer term.

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. /path/to/theme

[mrneilypops]

I should be more specific...sorry.
Using Spring 2014 release there is an option on the login screen to choose a framebuffer colour scheme.
How can I make this choice stick through a reboot?

[wuxmedia]

What Joe said,
adding that line to the .bashrc or .profile (I guess) - will 'source' the script.
There may already be one in there.

you could add it to the colour chooser script if you wanted, I suppose.

[DebianJoe]

I may have a different release of Spring than you, because I don't have a cool box that lets me set framebuffer colors.

So, if you have the modular scripts (as per the linuxbbq github), then you only need to source the theme you like. Since you mention one that I don't think has been added to the github, I assume that it's running the older console_colors script. In that case, you want to not only source the file that is being called to set the colors, but provide the argv that will choose the theme you want.

If that does not perfectly suit your needs, you can copy the escapes directly into your .bashrc or .profile as echo'd environment variables.

[DebianJoe]

Well, I've been not reading release notes since LONG before I got here, which means that quite often I don't have any idea of what MB "intends" for me to do. So, let's just pretend that he/I totally forgot your cool/awesome/ricer script, but we really want his theme in our linux console/framebuffer. Well, I guess I could go looking for it, but much like the time he had my fstab set to mount /dev/sda14...he might be drunk and forgot to add it after buying a huge bag of cocaine. But luckily, I don't need to be bothered with if I don't understand any of it. I DO know what the reichswolf should look like, so....I'll just make that shizzle happen without calling a script from another script.

Somewhere in your .bashrc or .profile or .zshrc, or whatever gets read every time you open a shell. Hack this in:

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echo -en "\e]P0727c79" 
echo -en "\e]P8CAC26E" 
echo -en "\e]P14D4600" 
echo -en "\e]P9757040" 
echo -en "\e]P24E4A1D" 
echo -en "\e]PA5B7425" 
echo -en "\e]P3181D0C" 
echo -en "\e]PB3E5310" 
echo -en "\e]P4414735" 
echo -en "\e]PC181D0C" 
echo -en "\e]P5282E1A" 
echo -en "\e]PD592611" 
echo -en "\e]P61F2423"
echo -en "\e]PE7B4028"
echo -en "\e]P71A2C28"
echo -en "\e]PF101615"
clear

Now, I can let Baconator get back to drinking Crystal with some Asian girls on his yacht while I enjoy his colorscheme in my framebuffer every time it is opened.

[machinebacon]

yes, it's in the making :)

[mrneilypops]

@DebianJoe
Thanks for the tips.

What I would like to be able to do is;
->Choose a framebuffer colorscheme from login menu.
->This theme becomes the default framebuffer theme through reboot until I decide to change it from the login menu.

Would this be feasible?

[machinebacon]

yes, it's in the making.

[mrneilypops]

@machinebacon
Super cool...thanks!

[machinebacon]

@joe: for the sake of completeness, the nice thing that fires up in everything-but-not-spring is the '/usr/local/bin/bbqlogin' with the menu point /usr/local/bin/fbcolors

Of course the selected theme does not stick after a reboot.

Long story short:

1) git clone https://github.com/linuxbbq/xcolors
2) sudo nano /usr/local/bin/fbuffer

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#!/bin/bash
ls ~/xcolors/fb_colors/
echo "Which theme to use (without extension)?"
read THEME
TMPFILE=/tmp/fb_store
touch $TMPFILE
cp .bashrc .bashrc_backup
. ~/xcolors/fb_colors/$THEME
clear
env-info
sed '/fb_colors/d' < ~/.bashrc > $TMPFILE
mv $TMPFILE ~/.bashrc
echo ". ~/xcolors/fb_colors/$THEME && clear" >> ~/.bashrc

3) sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/fbuffer

that's all. Of course this will fuck up your terminal in X - that's why there is a "clear" behind it.

WARNING: Do not mention "thanks, but Reichswolf is not in the list!!" because else I lose my shit.

[DebianJoe]

WARNING: Do not mention "thanks, but Reichswolf is not in the list!!" because else I lose my shit.

It is there now, I added it about 20 minutes before I responded to this.

[ChefIronBelly]

Seriously thanks for all the work.

[machinebacon]

@Joe: Thank you! I'll add some more from console_colors as time allows. Lot of copy-pasting :)

[mrneilypops]

You Guys Rock!