[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#618573: Needed some way to test whether we are on the console

[Michael Schutte]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 07:56:19AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> Doesn't the following code do everything console-setup needs:
> 
>     if kbd_mode 2>/dev/null; then
>         configure_the_keyboard
>         if setfont -o /dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
>             configure_the_font
>         fi
>     fi

With the adequate greps, this should be okay.  If configure_the_font is
just a setfont invocation, there is no need to guard it, as “setfont -v
$font” just spits out the same warning message if it is on a graphics
console.

> If the answer is yes, then there is no need for special testing toos and 
> perhaps this bug can be closed.

I’ll leave it open nonetheless.  It makes sense to have some kind of
“vt_mode” command analogous to kbd_mode, rather than having to dump the
current font to /dev/null.

Cheers,
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