RE: changing colors on linux framebuffer consoles

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Rick Engebretson wrote:

> The framebuffer console does indeed support color changes. In the provided
> test, the colors black and white (bg, fg) can be turned into any color
> (pink..teal) by adjusting the RGB values. It's just that only the cursor
> positions are refreshed, the panels are not refreshed. Further, my own,
> tiny, color test programs work fully as hoped. Your software works as far
> as I have tried it.

Perhaps removing "bce" from the corresponding linux terminfo entry would
force it to repaint.  Just
        infocmp >foo
        vi foo
        tic foo

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