Hi Trent, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:16:59AM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: > The version of openvt(1) I had yesterday, would return an error if its > child did, i.e. "openvt -sw -- false", failed. This version doesn't. > I want the old behaviour back, because it's useful for my scripts. > > I think my old version was > > [UPGRADE] kbd 1.15.2-3 -> 1.15.3-3 > > but I upgraded a lot of stuff yesterday. :-(
Thanks for your report, that’s definitely a regression in kbd. I’ll
reintroduce the previous behavior in the next upload.
> PS: I'm using kbd instead of console-setup because the former can do a
> smaller Terminus font than the latter. If you can tell me how to do
> that in console-setup, I'm happy to switch to it.
>
> $ cat ~/.console-setup
> # -*- sh -*-
> #. /etc/default/console-setup || :
> ## FIXME: only list tty's owned by my user.
> # ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
> # CHARMAP="UTF-8"
> # CODESET="Uni2"
> FONTFACE="Terminus"
> FONTSIZE="12x6"
> # XKBMODEL="pc105"
> # XKBLAYOUT="us"
> # XKBVARIANT=""
> XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps"
I don’t see why this wouldn’t work (and indeed, it works for me) –
perhaps the console-setup maintainers can help you with that.
Cheers,
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