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submitted 1 month ago by ColdWater@lemmy.ca to c/unixporn@lemmy.ml

Got sidetracked and accidentally customized my tty login

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[-] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

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@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

love this kind of consistency

[-] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] mat@linux.community 10 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[-] SteveTech@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

You can do colours as well!

My Linux TTY with a coloured /etc/issue message

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] SteveTech@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

unrelated but that image took 5 years to load

this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2024
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