jal-motd

A Dynamic and highly customizable MOTD, heavily based off of raspberrypi-motd by ar51an.
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Going into my continuation of this, I wanted to include things that added ease of installation, and further configuration. It is my first time really trying to make a servicable github repo as well. Please feel free to leave feedback.

I'd also like to see what else people can add to this - perhaps more metrics? Contribution could be easy, and you can read up more on motd here.

What it looks like (with default colors)

Install

(Goal 1: Ease of installation) Installation is simple using install.sh and uninstall.sh. You can also manually install the files. Documentation coming soon, or ar51an covers it in his repo here.

Install / Deployment:

sudo wget -O install-motd.sh "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/justinlevinedotme/jal-motd/main/install.sh"
sudo chmod +x install-motd.sh
sudo ./install-motd.sh

Uninstall:

sudo wget -O uninstall-motd.sh "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/justinlevinedotme/jal-motd/main/uninstall.sh"
sudo chmod +x uninstall-motd.sh
sudo ./uninstall-motd.sh

If there are any parts you don't want of the script, for example, 16-docker feel free to remove it from the update-motd.d directory after running install.sh

Customization

(Goal 2: Customizable) Customization of your MOTD is also pretty straightforward. There are 3 files in which customizations are applied. Warning! Do not change anything in /etc/update-motd.d/20-update as this will surely break the timer installed.

• /etc/update-motd.d/10-welcome
• /etc/update-motd.d/15-filesystem
• /etc/update-motd.d/16-docker
• /etc/update-motd-static.d/20-update

The currently supported customization is primarily coloring and text styling, although I would like to add more in the future. See below for a list of things to customize.

10-welcome

#Color Configs (Defaults shown)
#deviceColor = The header, what it calls your device.
deviceColorFg=0    # Black text
deviceColorBg=7    # White background
deviceBold=false    # Bold text

#greetingsColor = the date shown, etc.
greetingsColorFg=7 # White text
greetingsColorBg=0 # Default background
greetingsBold=false

#userColor = what it calls you!
userColorFg=0      # Black text
userColorBg=87     # #60FDFF background
userBold=true

#codenameColor = "bookworm"
codenameColorFg=8  # Dark gray text
codenameColorBg=0  # Default background
codenameBold=false

15-system

#Color Configs (defaults shown)
#statsLabelColor = the actual stats of your machine.
statsLabelColorFg=7  # White
statsLabelColorBg=0  # Default background
statsLabelBold=false

#bulletColor = the final "." before showing the stats
bulletColorFg=8  # Dark gray
bulletColorBg=0  # Default background
bulletBold=false

#infoColor = labels like "LAST, or IP"
infoColorFg=87  # #60FDFF
infoColorBg=0  # Default background
infoBold=true

#dimInfoColor = sub labels like * 05-20-24 11:50
dimInfoColorFg=8  # Dim version of #60FDFF
dimInfoColorBg=0  # Default background
dimInfoBold=false

16-docker

# Color Configs
dockerStatusHeaderFg=7  # White text
dockerStatusHeaderBg=0  # No background
dockerStatusHeaderBold=true

dockerRunningColorFg=46  # Green
dockerRunningColorBg=0   # No background
dockerRunningBold=true

dockerStoppedColorFg=196 # Red
dockerStoppedColorBg=0   # No background
dockerStoppedBold=true

# set column width
COLUMNS=2

20-update

#Color Configs (Defaults shown)
#msgColor = everything besides the update count.
msgColorFg=7 #White Text
msgColorBg=0 #No BG         
msgBold=false

#countZeroColor = the color of the number of packages if zero updates needed.
countZeroColorFg=16   # Black text
countZeroColorBg=242  # Gray background
countZeroBold=false

#countNonZeroColor = the color of the number of packages if updates are needed.
countNonZeroColorFg=16 # Black text
countNonZeroColorBg=71 # Green background
countNonZeroBold=false

Adding to your MOTD

Adding to your MOTD is also fairly straightforward.

The /etc/update-motd.d folder loads the files in order according to the two numbers ahead of their name. For example, in the case of our folder, the files appear on login as such:

1. 10-welcome
2. 15-filesystem
3. 16-docker
4. 20-update (intentionally blank)

Keeping that in mind, if you were to add a file with 11 before the same, for example: 11-foo, the file would then load after 10-welcome but before 15-filesystem. Feel free to make some cool stuff and add to our repo by contributing. More on that next.

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome!

For example, I don't know how on earth to write a contributing.md, or what is even a good way to go about it. I'd really love the ability to add some of your code here too.

Acknowledgements

• Readme Generator
• raspberripi-motd
• Best-README-template
• motd by yboetz which 16-docker mostly is taken from.