Minimal Setups

Colors in Minicom

To start minicom in color mode use

minicom -c on

Switch terminal emulation to ANSI.

Use escape sequences to actually change the color of text as described for instance here

https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/BuildyourownCommandLinewithANSIescapecodes.html.

The base sequence is \1b[Xm where X is a number as described below.

To get the colors in bright style, use the sequence \x1b[X;1m.

Number Color
0 reset
1 highlight
7 inverse
30 black
31 red
32 green
33 yellow
34 blue
35 magenta
36 cyan
37 white