NAME

       restorepalette - set the color palette for textmode.

SYNOPSIS

       restorepalette [filename]

DESCRIPTION

       restorepalette  without  arguments  sets  the  standard  VGA palette. This can be useful if it is somehow
       messed up.

       With  a  filename  argument  a  custom  palette  can  be  loaded  (feature   added   by   Charles   Blake
       <chuckb@alice.wonderland.caltech.edu>).

       This  allow a user to set up a file that looks like this one (These color map definitions are the same as
       the default VGA ones.  Alter to suite personal tastes). The first column contains the number of the color
       to set, then follow three integers in range 0 - 63 (lowest to highest intensity) for red, green, blue.

               0  0  0  0   # black
               1  0  0 42   # blue
               2  0 42  0   # green
               3  0 42 42   # cyan
               4 42  0  0   # red
               5 42  0 42   # magenta
               6 42 21  0   # brown
               7 42 42 42   # white
               8 21 21 21   # bright black
               9 21 21 63   # bright blue
              10 21 63 21   # bright green
              11 21 63 63   # bright cyan
              12 63 21 21   # bright red
              13 63 21 63   # bright magenta
              14 63 63 21   # bright brown
              15 63 63 63   # bright white

       The  inline  comments  are the only kind of allowed, as I use a little fscanf(3) trick to get them. Blank
       lines are ok, but not pure comment lines. See the comments in my code, also.

       This allows people to set up custom palettes for use in virtual console text modes.  I  use  it  all  the
       time.  When  combined  with  a color-syntax editor like jed-0.97+ or color-ls, etc., being able to choose
       your own text-mode palette is quite a bonus. I set mine up via restorepalette /etc/palette in my /etc/rc.
       If the program is given the correct permissions, then individual users can have restorepalette ~/.palette
       or some such thing in their shell startup files.  Of course, it shouldn't be done  when  starting  remote
       shells or when under X, so some kind of test that TERM is a virtual console is needed for that case.

SEE ALSO

       svgalib(7),   vgagl(7),   libvga.config(5),   vga_setpalvec(3),  dumpreg(1),  convfont(1),  fix132x43(1),
       restorefont(1), restoretextmode(1), runx(1), savetextmode(1), setmclk(1), textmode(1).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was edited by Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>. The  exact  source  of  the
       referenced utility as well as of the original documentation is unknown.

       It   is   very   likely   that   both   are   at  least  to  some  extent  are  due  to  Harm  Hanemaayer
       <H.Hanemaayer@inter.nl.net>.

       Occasionally this might be wrong. I hereby asked to be excused by the original author  and  will  happily
       accept any additions or corrections to this first version of the svgalib manual.