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/'