Hi Alexey,

The console-setup package in Debian needs a way to check for the
text/graphics mode of the active VT (from a shell script).  This can be
done with “setfont -v -o /dev/null”, for example, but that isn’t very
elegant.  Julien Cristau has proposed a small utility (which I’m calling
“vt_mode” for now) to report this information in a canonical fashion.

I’ve adapted it to kbd; see attachment.  Do you think this code is
suitable for inclusion?  If so, I am going to integrate it into the
build system and write a short man page for it, so I can send you a
proper patch.  I’d like to hear your opinion!

All the best,
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