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On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:42:36PM +0100, Michael Schutte wrote:
> Hi Alexey,
>=20
> 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 =93setfont -v -o /dev/null=94, for example, but that isn=92t ve=
ry
> elegant.  Julien Cristau has proposed a small utility (which I=92m calling
> =93vt_mode=94 for now) to report this information in a canonical fashion.

I wonder whether you actually need to know what's the KD_ mode, or
maybe your scripts just need yes/no answers on simple two questions:
- whether the active VT is in the text mode?
- whether the active VT is in the graphics mode?

In the latter case, I suggest to implement an utility with an option or
argument specifying what mode to query, and a tty(1)-like exit status,
so its use would be as simple as "if vt_mode text; then ...; fi".


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