Got sidetracked and accidentally customized my tty login

  • 柊 つかさ@lemmy.world
    13·
    4 months 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.

    • ColdWater@lemmy.caOP
      8·
      4 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

    • ColdWater@lemmy.caOP
      4·
      4 months ago

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

      • SteveTechEnglish
        1·
        4 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.

    • ColdWater@lemmy.caOP
      4·
      4 months ago

      you can easily make this by editing a file in /etc/issue, it’s basically just html here is some possible switches that I use and I use this website to generate the logo

    • ColdWater@lemmy.caOP
      4·
      4 months ago

      You can do this by editing the “issue” file located in /etc/issue, you can put anything in there and it will display in tty login as long as it is text based, if you want it to show date and time or other information here is some possible switches, I recommended Kate if you want ascii because nano can’t display ascii

    • nfsm@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      4 months ago

      I also couldn’t get sddm to work from the KDE settings. I changed the sddm.conf file manually and I’m using the catpuccin theme. The Arch wiki helped (as usual).