On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 11:10:52 +0100, Dan-Simon Myrland wrote: > 2) Make a custom kernel with the option WSDISPLAY_DEFAULTSCREENS=12
Why? WSDISPLAY_DEFAULTSCREENS is the number of screens pre-created by the kernel, but you can always create as many as you need (subject to WSDISPLAY_MAXSCREEN), see /etc/wscons.conf and /etc/rc.d/wscons. The default for that default is actually 0. > I don't mind that NetBSD has four active ttys by default, but the steps > to enable all 12 seems unnecessarily tedious. I realize that not all > architectures have 12 function keys, but laptops usually do. If the > kernel supported a maximum of 12 ttys on popular architectures, > enabling then would only require steps 1 and 2. But where do you stop? macs have like, what, 19? I don't like the idea. The only real limitation currently is the switching commands/keysyms. WSDISPLAY_MAXSCREEN is a static limit b/c it was easier to hardcode it, but it may be made an option easily as far as I can tell. Switching from a fixed size array to a dynamic one is probably not too much work either. But then, overall, I think that trying to make the kernel substitute for screen, tmux (in base), etc is kinda dead end, so I'd rather we don't encourage it. -uwe
