[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#617416: kbd: [Feature Request] Add userspace utility for adjusting the virtual terminal color map

[Dustin Kirkland]

Package: kbd
Version: 1.15-1ubuntu4
Severity: wishlist

I just uploaded this change to Ubuntu's kbd package, and I thought it prudent to send it upstream to Debian as well, as I suspect some Debian users might appreciate this utility.

I (co-)wrote a tool, /sbin/setvtrgb, that uses a clever ioctl() to dynamically adjust the virtual terminal's (console's) 16-color color map.  There's a manpage included in the diff that explains how to (very simply) use the tool.

A separate upload to another source package (console-setup) in Ubuntu will install a distro-recommended (though user-adjustable) conffile with an attractive palette and an upstart job that applies the configuration on boot.

Debdiff attached.  Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers natty-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'natty-updates'), (500, 'natty-security'), (500, 'natty')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages kbd depends on:
ii  console-setup              1.57ubuntu11  console font and keymap setup prog
ii  initramfs-tools            0.98.8ubuntu2 tools for generating an initramfs
ii  libc6                      2.13-0ubuntu4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                   4.0-0ubuntu9  Linux Standard Base 4.0 init scrip

kbd recommends no packages.

kbd suggests no packages.

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