I am testing some boot splash screens but the ones I like most are darker and therefore the black font color during boot, well, shows on dark grey or black background, so I can’t see.
I would like to change the font color of the messages, but not the results (green=DONE, red=FAILED, etc., I don’t want to change that, only the messages like “doing fast boot”, “Loading CPUfreq”, and all the ones loading stuff, mounting, etc.).
Apparently I need to edit /lib/lsb/init-functions?
I found a few examples on google, mostly for debian based and the ones I have seen are far more complex than the very simple one opensuse uses. So I am stuck here.
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>Hi,
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>I am testing some boot splash screens but the ones I like most are
>darker and therefore the black font color during boot, well, shows on
>dark grey or black background, so I can’t see.
>
>I would like to change the font color of the messages, but not the
>results (green=DONE, red=FAILED, etc., I don’t want to change that, only
>the messages like “doing fast boot”, “Loading CPUfreq”, and all the ones
>loading stuff, mounting, etc.).
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>Apparently I need to edit /lib/lsb/init-functions?
>
>I found a few examples on google, mostly for debian based and the ones
>I have seen are far more complex than the very simple one opensuse uses.
>So I am stuck here.
>
>11.2 version.
>
>tnx!
Maybe some links to what you have found so far please?
I have found many links explaining how to change the font color in GRUB, but past that, during the verbose boot process, I have only 3 links which basically tell the same:
I wonder if this is something that must be changed in the “bootsplash-*.cfg” file instead of the sysconfig init. Just a thought.
It must be possible somehow, cuz when I use a non-opensuse theme, it loads with black fonts. When I use opensuse theme but don’t use the picture (say I boot with different resolution or color depth), the fonts are white and background black. So the font color does change.
The verbose picture shown here Bootsplash has white fonts, but they don’t say how to code it.
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>I have found many links explaining how to change the font color in GRUB,
>but past that, during the verbose boot process, I have only 3 links
>which basically tell the same:
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>‘ChapterÂ17.ÂThe sysconfig Directory’ (http://tinyurl.com/yb2h882)
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>‘Sysconfig Information’ (http://tinyurl.com/yzhapqg)
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>‘The /etc/sysconfig directory’ (http://tinyurl.com/3e2tld)
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>I wonder if this is something that must be changed in the
>“bootsplash-*.cfg” file instead of the sysconfig init. Just a thought.
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>It must be possible somehow, cuz when I use a non-opensuse theme, it
>loads with black fonts. When I use opensuse theme but don’t use the
>picture (say I boot with different resolution or color depth), the fonts
>are white and background black. So the font color does change.
>
>The verbose picture shown here ‘Bootsplash’
>(http://www.bootsplash.org/Welcome_to_the_graphical_world_of_Linux) has
>white fonts, but they don’t say how to code it.
>
>tnx
When i visited the bootsplash site i went to the Config files page,
accessed on the left in Themeing. And found fgcolor rather quickly.
Does this help?
Add this repo, install the kernel from it, and you’ll have what you want. Maybe you could reach jengelh through opensuse.org and ask him how he did this. AFAICS it’s in the kernel parameters.
Well if the foreground color means the font color, then yes. But I couldn’t make that match anywhere, so I believe the fgcolor is not related to the fonts. Though I could give a try, won’t kill anyone.
I have read the possibility of compiling a kernel to change this, yes, but so far I didn’t see confirmation that I need to have a different kernel to change the font color of the boot messages. Now if that’s the case, I believe it’s easier I make a trade off and use a different background image.
