There's an adage that holds that the best design is a stolen design. On that basis, I recommend reading about how the Hurd console system works.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/hurd-daemons.html#console http://gnu.org./software/hurd/hurd/console.html The Hurd people have, as I have, already been through the process that you're going through, although their console client daemon doesn't render to graphics mode. Two notes: * We all steal from screen(1). Hurd has a "server" that maintains the state of multiple virtual consoles, and a "client" that gathers raw input and that displays the text contents of the console on an output device. * Good old conservative Hurd goes with CTRL+ALT+F1 meaning "switch to virtual terminal #1". Decide to go with something different, and you will open up a can of worms. Or at least a can of questions from system administrators who ask why you didn't make the system extensible enough so that they could use WINKEY+L and CTRL+ALT+DEL as their "switch to the screenlock/greeter session" hotkeys. (-: _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
