{ config, pkgs, ... }: with pkgs.lib; let # think about where to put this chunk of code! # required by other pieces as well requiredTTYs = config.services.mingetty.ttys ++ config.boot.extraTTYs ++ [ config.services.syslogd.tty ]; ttys = map (dev: "/dev/${dev}") requiredTTYs; consoleFont = config.i18n.consoleFont; consoleKeyMap = config.i18n.consoleKeyMap; vconsoleConf = pkgs.writeText "vconsole.conf" '' KEYMAP=${consoleKeyMap} FONT=${consoleFont} ''; in { ###### interface options = { # most options are defined in i18n.nix # FIXME: still needed? boot.extraTTYs = mkOption { default = []; example = ["tty8" "tty9"]; description = '' Tty (virtual console) devices, in addition to the consoles on which mingetty and syslogd run, that must be initialised. Only useful if you have some program that you want to run on some fixed console. For example, the NixOS installation CD opens the manual in a web browser on console 7, so it sets to ["tty7"]. ''; }; # dummy option so that requiredTTYs can be passed requiredTTYs = mkOption { default = []; description = " FIXME: find another place for this option. FIXME: find a good description. "; }; }; ###### implementation config = { inherit requiredTTYs; # pass it to ./modules/tasks/tty-backgrounds.nix environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.kbd ]; # Let systemd-vconsole-setup.service do the work of setting up the # virtual consoles. FIXME: trigger a restart of # systemd-vconsole-setup.service if /etc/vconsole.conf changes. environment.etc = singleton { target = "vconsole.conf"; source = vconsoleConf; }; # This is identical to the systemd-vconsole-setup.service unit # shipped with systemd, except that it uses /dev/tty1 instead of # /dev/tty0 to prevent putting the X server in non-raw mode, and # it has a restart trigger. systemd.services."systemd-vconsole-setup" = { description = "Setup Virtual Console"; before = [ "sysinit.target" "shutdown.target" ]; unitConfig = { DefaultDependencies = "no"; Conflicts = "shutdown.target"; ConditionPathExists = "/dev/tty1"; }; serviceConfig = { Type = "oneshot"; RemainAfterExit = true; ExecStart = "${config.systemd.package}/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup /dev/tty1"; }; restartTriggers = [ vconsoleConf ]; }; }; }