From: Michael Schutte <michi@uiae.at>
To: Linux console tools development discussion <kbd@lists.altlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [kbd] New vt_mode tool for kbd?
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:25:49 +0100
Message-ID: <20110321222549.GA13691@graeme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110321221354.GB30302@altlinux.org>
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Hey,
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 01:13:54AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:42:36PM +0100, Michael Schutte wrote:
> > 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 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".
Yes, that would certainly work as well; it could even do both things,
depending on the presence of an argument. I don’t really care either
way (it isn’t even my script, I’m just relaying for the console-setup
developers). I just figured it would make sense to stick to the way
kbd_mode works.
Cheers,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-21 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-21 21:42 Michael Schutte
2011-03-21 22:13 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2011-03-21 22:25 ` Michael Schutte [this message]
2011-03-25 13:20 ` Alexey Gladkov
2011-03-26 17:33 ` Michael Schutte
2011-03-26 22:33 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2011-03-27 9:33 ` Alexey Gladkov
2011-03-28 10:55 ` Alexey Gladkov
2011-03-28 11:19 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2011-03-28 11:26 ` Alexey Gladkov
2011-03-28 21:07 ` Alexey Gladkov
2011-03-29 21:51 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2011-03-29 22:27 ` Alexey Gladkov
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