On Fri Oct 16, 2020 at 2:35 PM -03, Kian Kasad wrote:
> I'm trying to have a runit service spawn `/usr/bin/ly` in a certain tty
> (tty2). I've tried redirecting std{in,out,err} to the tty:
>
> exec /usr/bin/ly </dev/tty2 >/dev/tty2 2>&1
>
> but this didn't work.
>
As far as I know, ly wants to be explicitly configured for a certain
tty, instead of supporting being launched anywhere. Even then, it might
still require quite a bit of work to function properly.
You can see a service for it in a PR for Void Linux [1]. For anyone
curious, ly is a TUI display manager [2].
- [1]
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/24038/files#diff-cbcda52b1a625e2c6b384056d5fba09297ffdf613786fe00b8c23c209bf3d7d7
- [2]
https://github.com/nullgemm/ly
> I tried the openvt(1) program, which has a flag `-e` to exec the program
> instead of forking it:
I don't know anything about openvt, unfortunately.
Received on Sat Oct 17 2020 - 04:50:23 UTC