Re: Is there a way to use a custom background in terminal mode?

[hvw59601 <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:34:14 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 08:21:59PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> > > On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 08:52:56 -0700, 斟酌鵬兄 wrote:
> > >
> > > > Like a bitmap or jpeg?
> > > I remember openSUSE had (still has?) a cute background image when
> > > jumping to a tty console so this has to be possible...
> > >
> > > Google suggests "fbterm" and "fbcondecor" but I have not tried any of
> > > those, I can't really tell about their status nor their current
> > > funcionalities :-?
> > There are terminal emulators that allow for changing the background
> > (eterm comes to mind), but in a tty, without an X session, I do not
> > believe this is possible.
>
> It sems that it's possible. You can read about the above mentioned 
> utilities requirements at their respective sites.

http://code.google.com/p/fbterm/ says "background image for eye candy". 
Haven't tried it.

Hugo