[kbd] New vt_mode tool for kbd?

Alexey Gladkov gladkov.alexey at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 13:20:19 UTC 2011


22.03.2011 00:42, Michael Schutte wrote:
> 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.

May be something like this (see attachment) ?

I thing this utility is more script-friendly and more extensible.

-- 
Rgrds, legion

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