Has anyone ever used kmscon successfully

Has anyone ever used kmscon successfully

[John Soo]

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Hi guix,

I’m curious about terminal alternatives so I was pretty excited to see kmscon as a service. What do I need to do aside from add the service? All I see with the following is blinking cursor on tty8:

(modify-services
             %desktop-services
             ('kmscon c => (kmscon-configuration (virtual-terminal "tty8"))))))

Thank you for everything,

John

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Re: Has anyone ever used kmscon successfully

[Mathieu Othacehe]

Hi John,

I built the new GuixSD installer upon kmscon. It works pretty well and
is a good alternative to raw linux VT's in my opinion.

> (modify-services
>              %desktop-services
>              ('kmscon c => (kmscon-configuration (virtual-terminal "tty8"))))))

modify-services implies that there's already a kmscon service in
%desktop-services, which is not the case. Plus 'kmscon is not a proper
service type.

You might prefer to write something like (not tested):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(cons* (service kmscon-service-type
                  (kmscon-configuration
                    (virtual-terminal "tty8")))
        %desktop-services)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Mathieu

Re: Has anyone ever used kmscon successfully

[John Soo]

Thanks!

 I have a lot to learn about services!  Seems nice so far.  Do you know if there will be any more development on kmscon or is it only in maintenance?

Works like a charm.

- John

> On Dec 16, 2018, at 2:33 AM, Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> I built the new GuixSD installer upon kmscon. It works pretty well and
> is a good alternative to raw linux VT's in my opinion.
> 
>> (modify-services
>>             %desktop-services
>>             ('kmscon c => (kmscon-configuration (virtual-terminal "tty8"))))))
> 
> modify-services implies that there's already a kmscon service in
> %desktop-services, which is not the case. Plus 'kmscon is not a proper
> service type.
> 
> You might prefer to write something like (not tested):
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (cons* (service kmscon-service-type
>                  (kmscon-configuration
>                    (virtual-terminal "tty8")))
>        %desktop-services)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Mathieu

Re: Has anyone ever used kmscon successfully

[Mathieu Othacehe]

Hello John,

>  I have a lot to learn about services!  Seems nice so far.  Do you know if there will be any more development on kmscon or is it only in maintenance?

The original author David Herrmann seems to have stop kmscon
developments in 2014. Guix now uses the forked kmscon package hosted at
https://github.com/Aetf/kmscon, which contains a few fixes and
improvements.

>
> Works like a charm.

Good to know :)

Mathieu