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Nate_S
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 Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:39 pm Post subject: TIP: Custom text colors per tty (for splash, etc) |
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The color of the text you type is controlled by the PS1 enviromental variable. This is normally set up by /etc/bash/bashrc. I wanted a way to customize the text color for each tty (as I was using a custom splash screen per tty, and some of them (NightWorld) were hard to read with the default grey text due to low contrast, and I thought green text would be very fitting with the Matrix Theme,) so I set up this script:
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if [[ ${TERM} == "linux" ]] ; then
if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then
if [[ $(tty) == "/dev/tty2" ]] ; then
PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W \$\[\033[00;35m\] '
elif [[ $(tty) == "/dev/tty3" ]] ; then
PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W \$\[\033[01;32m\] '
elif [[ $(tty) == "/dev/tty4" ]] ; then
PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W \$\[\033[00;31m\] '
elif [[ $(tty) == "/dev/tty5" ]] ; then
PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W \$\[\033[01;36m\] '
elif [[ $(tty) == "/dev/tty6" ]] ; then
PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W \$\[\033[00;32m\] '
else
PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W \$\[\033[00m\] '
fi
else
if [[ $(tty) == "/dev/tty2" ]] ; then
PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w \$\[\033[00;35m\] '
elif [[ $(tty) == "/dev/tty3" ]] ; then
PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w \$\[\033[01;32m\] '
elif [[ $(tty) == "/dev/tty4" ]] ; then
PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w \$\[\033[00;31m\] '
elif [[ $(tty) == "/dev/tty5" ]] ; then
PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w \$\[\033[01;36m\] '
elif [[ $(tty) == "/dev/tty6" ]] ; then
PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w \$\[\033[00;32m\] '
else
PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w \$\[\033[00m\] '
fi
fi
fi
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I called it /etc/termcolors and then added the line 'source /etc/termcolors' to the bottom of /etc/bash/bashrc. More info on PS1 variables, as well as a table of all the color codes you can use for it, is available here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/prompt-magic.xml
-Nate |
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