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Setterm allows setting terminal attributes such as colors, cursor keys, tabs, and blanking. It writes a character string to standard output to invoke the specified capabilities. Options include setting foreground and background colors, underline color, bold, blink, and more. It can also dump the current terminal state to a file.

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Como Configurar Terminales Texto en Linux

Setterm allows setting terminal attributes such as colors, cursor keys, tabs, and blanking. It writes a character string to standard output to invoke the specified capabilities. Options include setting foreground and background colors, underline color, bold, blink, and more. It can also dump the current terminal state to a file.

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SETTERM(1) User

Commands SETTERM(1)

NAME
setterm - set terminal attributes

SYNOPSIS
setterm [options]

DESCRIPTION
setterm writes to standard output a character string that will invoke the
specified terminal capabilities. Where possible terminfo is consulted to find the
string to use. Some options however (marked "virtual consoles only" below)
do not correspond to a terminfo(5) capability. In this case, if the terminal
type is "con" or "linux" the string that invokes the specified
capabilities on the PC Minix virtual console driver is output. Options that are
not imple‐
mented by the terminal are ignored.

OPTIONS
For boolean options (on or off), the default is on.

For conciseness, an 8-color below is black, red, green, yellow, blue,


magenta, cyan, or white.

A 16-color is an 8-color, grey, or bright followed by red, green, yellow,


blue, magenta, cyan, or white.

The various color options may be set independently, at least at virtual


consoles, though the results of setting multiple modes (for example, -underline
and
-half-bright) are hardware-dependent.

-appcursorkeys [on|off] (virtual consoles only)


Sets Cursor Key Application Mode on or off. When on, ESC O A, ESC O
B, etc. will be sent for the cursor keys instead of ESC [ A, ESC [ B, etc. See
the "vi and Cursor-Keys" section of the Text-Terminal-HOWTO for how
this can cause problems for vi users.

-append [1-NR_CONS]
Like -dump, but appends to the snapshot file instead of overwriting
it. Only works if no -dump options are given.

-background 8-color|default (virtual consoles only)


Sets the background text color.

-blank [0-60|force|poke] (virtual consoles only)


Sets the interval of inactivity, in minutes, after which the screen
will be automatically blanked (using APM if available). Without an argument,
gets the blank status (returns which vt was blanked or zero for
unblanked vt).

The force option keeps screen blank even if a key is pressed.

The poke option unblank the screen.


-bfreq [freqnumber]
Sets the bell frequency in Hz. Without an argument, defaults to 0.

-blength [0-2000]
Sets the bell duration in milliseconds. Without an argument,
defaults to 0.

-blink [on|off]
Turns blink mode on or off. Except at a virtual console, -blink off
turns off all attributes (bold, half-brightness, blink, reverse).

-bold [on|off]
Turns bold (extra bright) mode on or off. Except at a virtual
console, -bold off turns off all attributes (bold, half-brightness, blink,
reverse).

-clear [all]
Clears the screen and "homes" the cursor, as clear(1).

-clear rest
Clears from the current cursor position to the end of the screen.

-clrtabs [tab1 tab2 tab3 ...] (virtual consoles only)


Clears tab stops from the given horizontal cursor positions, in the
range 1-160. Without arguments, clears all tab stops.

-cursor [on|off]
Turns the terminal's cursor on or off.

-default
Sets the terminal's rendering options to the default values.

-dump [1-NR_CONS]
Writes a snapshot of the given virtual console (with attributes) to
the file specified in the -file option, overwriting its contents; the default is
screen.dump. Without an argument, dumps the current virtual console.
Overrides -append.

-append [1-NR_CONS]
Like -dump, but appends to the snapshot file instead of overwriting
it. Only works if no -dump options are given.

-file dumpfilename
Sets the snapshot file name for any -dump or -append options on the
same command line. If this option is not present, the default is screen.dump in
the current directory. A path name that exceeds system maximum will
be truncated, see PATH_MAX from linux/limits.h for the value.

-msg [on|off] (virtual consoles only)


Enables or disables the sending of kernel printk() messages to the
console.

-msglevel 1-8 (virtual consoles only)


Sets the console logging level for kernel printk() messages. All
messages strictly more important than this will be printed, so a logging level of 0
has the same effect as -msg on and a logging level of 8 will print
all kernel messages. klogd(8) may be a more convenient interface to the logging
of kernel messages.
-powerdown [0-60]
Sets the VESA powerdown interval in minutes. Without an argument,
defaults to 0 (disable powerdown). If the console is blanked or the monitor is in
suspend mode, then the monitor will go into vsync suspend mode or
powerdown mode respectively after this period of time has elapsed.

-underline [on|off]
Turns underline mode on or off (see -ulcolor).

-powersave [off]
Turns off monitor VESA powersaving features.

-powersave on|vsync
Puts the monitor into VESA vsync suspend mode.

-powersave powerdown
Puts the monitor into VESA powerdown mode.

-powersave hsync
Puts the monitor into VESA hsync suspend mode.

-regtabs [1-160] (virtual consoles only)


Clears all tab stops, then sets a regular tab stop pattern, with one
tab every specified number of positions. Without an argument, defaults to 8.

-repeat [on|off] (virtual consoles only)


Turns keyboard repeat on or off.

-reset Displays the terminal reset string, which typically resets the
terminal to its power on state.

-reverse [on|off]
Turns reverse video mode on or off. Except at a virtual console,
-reverse off turns off all attributes (bold, half-brightness, blink, reverse).

-store (virtual consoles only)


Stores the terminal's current rendering options (foreground and
background colors) as the values to be used at reset-to-default.

-tabs [tab1 tab2 tab3 ...] (virtual consoles only)


Sets tab stops at the given horizontal cursor positions, in the range
1-160. Without arguments, shows the current tab stop settings.

-term terminal_name
Overrides the TERM environment variable.

-ulcolor 16-color (virtual consoles only)


Sets the color for underlined characters.

-version
Output version information and exit.

-help Output help screen and exit.

SEE ALSO
tput(1), stty(1), terminfo(5), tty(4)

BUGS
Differences between the Minix and Linux versions are not documented.
AVAILABILITY
The setterm command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

util-linux January
2000 SETTERM(1)

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