change tty text and background colour?

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  1. lodore

    lodore Registered Member

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    Hello,
    whats the easiest way to change the white text and black background for tty 1-6?

    I tryed this reply 4 but then i got error message on boot saying id field to long 6 times and tty's didnt seem to work...
    X started fine thou so i just put file back.
     
  2. GlobalForce

    GlobalForce Regular Poster

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    You get this sorted or how'd you have <code>your line setup?</code>
     
  3. lodore

    lodore Registered Member

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    Hello,

    I modified this
    1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
    2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
    3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
    4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
    5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
    6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

    to this
    1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -I `setterm -clear all -foreground green -bold -store` 38400 tty1
    2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -I `setterm -clear all -foreground green -bold -store` 38400 tty2
    3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -I `setterm -clear all -foreground green -bold -store` 38400 tty3
    4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -I `setterm -clear all -foreground green -bold -store` 38400 tty4
    5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -I `setterm -clear all -foreground green -bold -store` 38400 tty5
    6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -I `setterm -clear all -foreground green -bold -store` 38400 tty6

    on boot it said to much code for the id field i think.

    the tty's didnt seem to work.
    X started fine so I logged in and changed back to original and tty;s worked again.
     
  4. iceni60

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    maybe ttys use the .bashrc in the etc directory. try searching for this -
    change tty text /etc/.bashrc

    edit: i mean /etc/bash.bashrc

    ok, i'll try and write something that makes sense. i don't know for sure, but the ttys probably use the default shell - 'echo $SHELL' you can change the way they look, if you're using bash like me, in ~/.bashrc for the user and for root in /root/.bashrc or maybe the etc one i mentioned before.
     
    Last edited: May 11, 2009
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