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 <address@hidden> 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