12Jun/110
Test your console if it can display 256 colors with Perl
With this script you can test which colors your console can display.
You will simply see all the supported colors on your console.
#!/usr/bin/perl # Author: Todd Larason <jtl@molehill.org> # $XFree86: xc/programs/xterm/vttests/256colors2.pl,v 1.1 1999/07/11 08:49:54 dawes Exp $ # use the resources for colors 0-15 - usually more-or-less a # reproduction of the standard ANSI colors, but possibly more # pleasing shades # colors 16-231 are a 6x6x6 color cube for ($red = 0; $red < 6; $red++) { for ($green = 0; $green < 6; $green++) { for ($blue = 0; $blue < 6; $blue++) { printf("\x1b]4;%d;rgb:%2.2x/%2.2x/%2.2x\x1b\\", 16 + ($red * 36) + ($green * 6) + $blue, int ($red * 42.5), int ($green * 42.5), int ($blue * 42.5)); } } } # colors 232-255 are a grayscale ramp, intentionally leaving out # black and white for ($gray = 0; $gray < 24; $gray++) { $level = ($gray * 10) + 8; printf("\x1b]4;%d;rgb:%2.2x/%2.2x/%2.2x\x1b\\", 232 + $gray, $level, $level, $level); } # display the colors # first the system ones: print "System colors:\n"; for ($color = 0; $color < 8; $color++) { print "\x1b[48;5;${color}m "; } print "\x1b[0m\n"; for ($color = 8; $color < 16; $color++) { print "\x1b[48;5;${color}m "; } print "\x1b[0m\n\n"; # now the color cube print "Color cube, 6x6x6:\n"; for ($green = 0; $green < 6; $green++) { for ($red = 0; $red < 6; $red++) { for ($blue = 0; $blue < 6; $blue++) { $color = 16 + ($red * 36) + ($green * 6) + $blue; print "\x1b[48;5;${color}m "; } print "\x1b[0m "; } print "\n"; } # now the grayscale ramp print "Grayscale ramp:\n"; for ($color = 232; $color < 256; $color++) { print "\x1b[48;5;${color}m "; } print "\x1b[0m\n";




