Re: [9fans] Colors and other fun

["andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>]

colors are hardcoded for applications, however there's a small
loophole you can use on 8-bpp displays to get something that is
almost, but not quite, entirely unlike X's resources.

the 'getmap' command will let you change to a different colormap from
the default. pre-defined cmaps are in /lib/cmap. from the
documentation:

          On 8-bit color-mapped displays, getmap loads the display's
          color map (default rgbv).  The named colormap can be a file
          in the current directory or in the standard repository
          /lib/cmap.  It can also be a string of the form gamma or
          gammaN, where N is a floating point value for the gamma,
          defining the contrast for a monochrome map.  Similarly,
          rgamma and rgammaN define a reverse-video monochrome map.
          Finally, the names screen or display or vga are taken as
          synonyms for the current color map stored in the display
          hardware.