TTY ricing 2019-02-01 This is just a repost from /g/, thread 66847569 (meaning this is not my content) Thanks, Anonymous!
Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 16:40:02 No.66851929: >>66851873 --- tty ricing guide --- - install fbsplash or splashutils depending on the distro - you're gonna need to configure and recompile the kernel enable required kernel options, see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fbsplash ignore the rest of the article - install some themes you can use as templates splash-themes-gentoo or bootsplash-themes or fbsplash-theme-natural-arch or whatever you can try out some themes like so splash_manager -c set --theme=THEME that will set the theme on your current tty, to set the theme on another tty, use splash_manager -c set --theme=THEME --tty=N you can't apply themes that don't match your resolution - make your own theme, it's ez use a bg img that's in your res, put it in themedir/images, name it "verbose-<your res>.png" edit the file named "<your res>.cfg" in themedir appropriately just use another theme as a template, you don't need any guide or whatever to do this if something isn't obvious, look at <slash>usr/share/doc/splashutils-1.5.4.4-r7/theme_format - make a simple init script/systemd unit to set your login theme and tty colors on startup (you can set a different theme in .bash_profile for post login if you want) - setting the console (tty) font differs between distros, see your distro wiki or whatever - don't forget to put some cool ascii in <slash>etc/issue here's how I did it - <slash>etc/tty_theme - file where I keep the names of the themes I'm using: export TTY_LOGIN_THEME=login_theme export TTY_THEME=post_login_theme - my openrc script where I set the login theme and colors: http://ix.io/1dCa - relevant stuff from .bash_profile (setting the post login theme): . <slash>etc/tty_theme [ "$TERM" = "linux" ] && [ -z $SSH_TTY ] && \ sudo splash_manager -c set --theme=$TTY_THEME - .bash_logout so when you log out it resets the login theme: [ "$TERM" = "linux" ] && [ -z $SSH_TTY ] && \ sudo splash_manager -c set --theme="$TTY_LOGIN_THEME"
Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 16:41:22 No.66851939: >>66851929 had to put <slash> instead of / because 4chan/cloudflare won't let me post if there's unix file paths use this for tty scrots https://github.com/maandree/scrotty