tulizu is a pure bash script to view and switch getty issue files. Furthermore it may helpful at the creation process of such an issue file when there are ASCII arts included.

For this purpose tulizu uses its own tizu file format which allows to set options for different kind of resulting issue file.

tulizu is shipped with a modest collection of ASCII art issue/tizu files ready to use for Arch Linux users and some samples for other systems.

You are cordially invited to include your fancy issue/tizu file to tulizu to help to build a nice data base of issue/tizu files.

It’s name, if it is not clear, is a quibble of ‘issue tool’ and is in such to be pronounced contracted like ‘toolishoo’.

Last version is v0.3, May 2025

Available Issues For Systems

The number in parentheses indicate how many tizu files are available.

• Arch Linux (9)
• Black Arch (1)
• BSD (1)
• Debian (3)
• Parabola (1)
• Raspberry Pi (2)

Screenshots

These shots are here to give you an idea what you will get. Sometimes they are slightly fake to make it easier for me, or they are a little out of date in terms of the names you see. So don’t be surprised if you can’t reproduce the exact output.

A brief glimpse of the collection

List available files matching “arch*tizu”

Show details of files

Show variations of files using different color settings

tulizu with tbsm

That’s how my screen looks after login ready to go with tbsm.

Further Readings

All details about tulizu you can find in the doc directory.

Install

See README of the project page

License

GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2.0