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Got sidetracked and accidentally customized my tty login

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[–] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I always log in to my TTY. Have you tried setting your colour scheme before login? I have a mega janky setup where I add an OpenRC sysinit service that calls setvtrgb. The first lines of the startup log aren't affected but most of them are. That way I can log in with a colour scheme consistent with that which comes after the login.

[–] kamenlady 5 points 3 months ago

love this kind of consistency

[–] Static_Rocket 2 points 3 months ago

Ever thought of unraveling that escape sequence and injecting it into the agetty start string?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Looks great! Do you often use TTY login over a graphical display manager?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I used to have sddm but this time I forgot to install it after a clean reinstall of Arch (btw) so I use tty for a few day and I quite like it, I think I'm going to use tty login from now on

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can do colours as well!

My Linux TTY with a coloured /etc/issue message

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Oh nice, I'm only just getting started and still don't know what possible, funny how we use the same font XD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh cool, I believe only 4bit colours are possible, you can use this table from Wikipedia and the escape sequence \e[<FG>m replacing<FG> with your chosen foreground colour. Also \e[0m to reset everything.

funny how we use the same font XD

Haha yeah! I noticed that too!

I think I just used regex look aheads and look behinds to insert the colours easily.

Edit: Oh you can change that actual TTY font to a bigger one, if the text is too small too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

unrelated but that image took 5 years to load