evanpurkhiser / mkinitcpio-colors

Provides a hook for Arch Linux's mkinitcpio utility to set VT colors during early userspace

mkinitcpio setcolors hook

Archlinux mkinitcpio hook to set the Virtual Console colors during early userspace.

Depends on linux-vt-setcolors.

Usage

Install this by either using the AUR or by copying:

• install/* to /etc/initcpio/install/
• hooks/* to /etc/initcpio/hooks/
• setcolors.service to /etc/systemd/system/

Then, add to HOOKS in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf either colors or sd-colors after udev or systemd respectively.

Configuration

Define colors in /etc/vconsole.conf with the format COLOR_X=hexcode, being X a number between 0 and 15, like:

COLOR_0=000000 # black
COLOR_1=550000 # darkred
...
COLOR_15=ffffff # white

Regenerate the initramfs to apply the changes.

Converting

The following sed command can be used to convert from a setcolors configuration to the /etc/vconsole.conf format.

$ sed 's/^\(.*\)#\(.\{6\}\).*$/COLOR_\1=\2/'