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![]() ![]() GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams |
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When you log in on the console of your Linux System, you are usually presented with a login screen with information about the system you are about to log in on. You can change what you see on your login screen as well as adding a bit of colour.
When your GNU/Linux system boots it starts getty processes on a number of virtual terminals on your system. When getty starts it prints the contents of /etc/issue to the terminal. It is this file that can be modified to customise the look of your console.
You can add colour to your console through the use of escape sequences
that can be used to change the appearance of text on screen. For
example, you could pipe the output from the following script into
/etc/issue to try it out (perhaps take a backup copy of
/etc/issue first):