On Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 11:29 <u34@xxxxxxx> wrote:
The following is a feature request. At src/login/loginctl.c ?
The looked up feature is the equivalent of
setterm --blank aDelay --powerdown SomeOtherDelay
, only as soon as the login prompt appears. Before login.
I mean, I ask to leave the current state as is. But allow the admin to set
up these command also for the login prompt, if he chooses to. And it will
be cleared while logining in.
That command just put the display into a sort of blank mode.
For me, the current situation is that I have to login to get the ability to
run that setterm command. Which, I think, is not always desiarble. A
Then instead run it as a oneshot .service with StandardInput (and maybe TTYName) set appropriately. (It's one of the few situations where it is appropriate for services to access a tty.)
I think such settings *could* be made part of vconsole.conf, though. Try opening a feature request on systemd's GitHub.
console in the remote servers room can be in blank mode when no emergency
actions are required. In particular, when the server is remotely supervised.
And so is a desktop that also act as the single printer gateway for a small
office. Or for a user that gone away after the desktop was turned on (but
before he logged in), because he had some urgent call to attend to.
For a machine that boots into graphic mode, not plain old text mode, a
similar feature is implemented out of the box. Isn't it?
It's implemented by the "graphic mode" itself (usually by Xorg), not by systemd.
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u34
