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Change virtual terminal colors ​

Manual ​

Create a file /etc/vtrgb with the colors, see more examples here.

Example bellow based on base16-brogrammer.vga.

txt
56,248,45,236,42,78,16,214,78,222,29,243,16,83,15,255
60,17,197,186,132,90,129,219,82,53,211,189,129,80,125,255
74,24,94,15,210,183,94,229,102,46,97,9,214,185,219,255

Open a virtual terminal and run:

shell
setvtrgb /etc/vtrgb

Automatic on boot ​

Create an initcpio hook for this.

Step 1: Create /etc/initcpio/install/setvtrgb:

shell
##!/bin/bash

build() {
  # configuration file is required or we will do nothing
  test -r /etc/vtrgb || return

  add_file `readlink -e /etc/vtrgb` /etc/vtrgb
  add_binary setvtrgb
  add_runscript
}


help() {
  cat <<HELPEOF
  This hook calls the setvtrgb program to apply the currently configured
  color scheme during the early boot process. It uses /etc/vtrgb as its
  configuration file.
HELPEOF
}

Step 2: Create /etc/initcpio/hooks/setvtrgb:

shell
run_earlyhook() {
  setvtrgb /etc/vtrgb
  clear -x
}

Step 3: Add setvtrgb to HOOKS in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf:

shell
HOOKS=(base udev setvtrgb autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard resume fsck)

Step 4: Apply the changes:

shell
sudo mkinitcpio -p linux