Re: Has anyone ever used kmscon successfully

2018-12-16 Thread 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 hoste

Re: Has anyone ever used kmscon successfully

2018-12-16 Thread 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 wrote: > > > Hi John, > > I built the new GuixSD installe

Re: Has anyone ever used kmscon successfully

2018-12-16 Thread 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 implie

Has anyone ever used kmscon successfully

2018-12-15 Thread John Soo
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-confi