On Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 11:29 <u...@net9.ga> 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. > -- > u34 >
