Background is white and can't be changed

[maxigaz]

I've tried both ly 0.4.0 and the latest git version (installed from the AUR packages ly and ly-git, respectively) under Manjaro Linux + i3 and Sway. In both cases, the background is almost always white, although the line bg=0 is commented out in /etc/ly/config.ini (which should default to black, I assume?). This makes the text somewhat hard to read.

I’ve tried uncommenting that line and I get the same results.

Also, I’ve found an example of setting the background and foreground in #80, but from my understanding, it is mentioned there that this option wouldn't work under tty. I don’t know if the situation has changed since then and if it has, what format/value is accepted in the current version.

[takagiy]

I hit the similar situation; In my case the bg and the fg were always black and white respectively and config did not seem to affect. I don't know what I'm missing, but I found a workaround finally.
I edited the /lib/systemd/system/ly.service appending a ExecStartPre line to modify tty's color palette.

[Unit]
Description=TUI display manager
After=systemd-user-sessions.service plymouth-quit-wait.service
After=getty@tty2.service

[Service]
Type=idle
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/printf '%%b' '\e]P0FFC5C4\e]P7FFFFFF\ec'
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ly
StandardInput=tty
TTYPath=/dev/tty2
TTYReset=yes
TTYVHangup=yes

[Install]
Alias=display-manager.service

The above example sets color0(bg) to #FFC5C4 and color7(fg) to #FFFFFF.

[takagiy]

I found that term_reset_cmd in /etc/ly/config.ini also has to be modified to keep the colors after logging-in and while in second time login screen after logging-out again.

term_reset_cmd = /usr/bin/tput reset; /usr/bin/printf '%b' '\e]P7F1E9C7\e]P0090602\ec'

[hiukky]

@takagiy I tried the steps of your answer but I didn’t succeed here :/