How do i edit my Arch system to display custom message on each tty?

Question

I use Arch linux with i3 and xfce4 desktop environment. I have configured tty1 to open i3-gaps and tty2 to open xfce4. Is there a way to display a custom message on each tty saying that the current tty will open i3 window manager etc. I know about the /etc/issue file to show a message, but i would like to have a separate message for each tty before login. Is this possible??

Answer 1

If you want to display the contents of /etc/issue2 when opening tty2, run systemctl edit getty@tty2, and paste the following contents:

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --issue-file /etc/issue2 -o '-p -- \\u' --noclear %I $TERM

This modifies [email protected], but only for tty2. See systemctl cat getty@ for the un-modified service file.

With this drop-in snippet, the first ExecStart= line means "discard any ExecStart line that was present in the original service file", and the second ExecStart= line is the one I found in systemctl cat getty@, but I've added --issue-file /etc/issue2 so tty2 will use a different issue file than the other ttys.

Answer 2

You can change the banner displayed after the login changing the content of the file /etc/motd.