By writing a service ;-) I have a wip I started on a while ago, but I
didn't get past a black screen, so it needs some debugging... Also
it's sadly been abandoned in favor of systemd-console, which is
basically the same thing rewritten by the same author inside the
systemd tree :/
From 99b3ca3475507d9dc8df085ebb843909876c5a55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Craven <da...@craven.ch>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 13:17:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] wip kmscon service
---
gnu/local.mk | 1 +
gnu/services/kmscon.scm | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 57 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 gnu/services/kmscon.scm
diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index b8c5378..8c6be96 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES = \
%D%/services/dbus.scm \
%D%/services/desktop.scm \
%D%/services/dict.scm \
+ %D%/services/kmscon.scm \
%D%/services/lirc.scm \
%D%/services/mail.scm \
%D%/services/mcron.scm \
diff --git a/gnu/services/kmscon.scm b/gnu/services/kmscon.scm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..da1eb2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/services/kmscon.scm
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+(define-module (gnu services kmscon)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages admin)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages kmscon)
+ #:use-module (gnu services)
+ #:use-module (gnu services shepherd)
+ #:use-module (guix gexp)
+ #:use-module (guix records)
+ #:use-module (srfi srfi-26)
+ #:export (kmscon-service))
+
+(define-record-type* <kmscon-configuration>
+ kmscon-configuration make-kmscon-configuration
+ kmscon-configuration?
+ (kmscon kmscon-configuration-kmscon)
+ (login-program kmscon-configuration-login-program)
+ (login-params kmscon-configuration-login-params)
+ (hwaccel? kmscon-configuration-hwaccel?))
+
+(define (kmscon-shepherd-service config)
+ "Return a <shepherd-service> for kmscon with CONFIG."
+ (define kmscon (kmscon-configuration-kmscon config))
+
+ (define kmscon-command
+ (append
+ (list
+ #~(string-append #$kmscon "/bin/kmscon")
+ "--login" (kmscon-configuration-login-program config))
+ (if (kmscon-configuration-hwaccel? config) '("--hwaccel") '())
+ (list
+ "--" (kmscon-configuration-login-params config))))
+
+ (list (shepherd-service
+ (documentation "kmscon virtual terminal")
+ (requirement '(user-processes))
+ (provision '(kmscon))
+ (start #~(make-forkexec-constructor #$@kmscon-command))
+ (stop #~(make-kill-destructor)))))
+
+(define kmscon-service-type
+ (service-type (name 'kmscon)
+ (extensions
+ (list (service-extension shepherd-root-service-type
+ kmscon-shepherd-service)))))
+
+(define* (kmscon-service #:key
+ (kmscon kmscon)
+ (login-program #~(string-append #$shadow "/bin/login"))
+ (login-params "-p")
+ (hwaccel? #t))
+ "Run the @command{kmscon} daemon from @var{kmscon} to start a virtual terminal."
+ (service kmscon-service-type
+ (kmscon-configuration
+ (kmscon kmscon)
+ (login-program login-program)
+ (login-params login-params)
+ (hwaccel? hwaccel?))))
--
2.9.0
