Re: [kbd] New vt_mode tool for kbd?

[Michael Schutte <michi@uiae.at>]

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On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 04:20:19PM +0300, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> 22.03.2011 00:42, 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.
> 
> May be something like this (see attachment) ?
> 
> I thing this utility is more script-friendly and more extensible.

That’s much better, of course!

Cheers,
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