On 14/11/2025 15:15, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 07:13:14AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Jocelyn Falempe <[email protected]> said:
But on my test laptop, it's vt102 too.
It turns out, it's because kmscon starts "agetty" as the login
process, and that agetty overrides the TERM environment variable.
https://github.com/Aetf/kmscon/commit/21cf668c58867a100272adea6f323cd56fc73e78
The main benefit of agetty is to process /etc/issue. So maybe we can
implement that in kmscon instead.
Rather than reimplement that, you can just call agetty with the term
type to set.
Yeah, fixing the call to agetty seems like a better approach.
There has been a bunch of work in util-linux to support drop-ins
for /etc/issue, so nowadays it's much more complicated that
reading one file.
agetty has the 'term' arg, and since kmscon knows that what the
value should be, it can just set it.
I was looking for a -t or --term, but it's an extra argument.
Yes I can fix that in the systemd unit file then.
(The full paths in the unit are not necessary, so
ExecStart=@bindir@/kmscon can be just ExecStart=kmscon
and hopefully /sbin/agetty can just become 'agetty' and then
the whole unit becomes static and doesn't have to be templated.)
Ok I though full paths in systemd units are there for security reason.
Looking in /usr/lib/systemd/system, almost all units are using full
path. But I don't know if it's for historical or technical reason.
Zbyszek
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Jocelyn
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