[arch-general] Qingy on systemd

[Steve Randall]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 16:35:56 -0800
Curtis Shimamoto <sugar.and.scruffy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/08/12 at 04:00pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> > Looks like it doesn't:
> > 
> > [darose at daroselin ~]$ sudo systemctl enable qingy at tty6
> > ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/qingy at .service'
> > '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/qingy@%I.service'
> > 
> > :-)
> > 
> > 
> > Sucks that this doesn't work as advertised.  It should be a
> > no-brainer to be able to set up qingy on tty6.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > DR
> 
> Maybe you could simply remove the alias altogether.  I mean, if you
> are going to change it anyway, what is the difference between having
> it set via an alias or by your specification after the @? 
> 
> It makes me curious why it would be called qingy at .service rather than
> simply qingy.service if it is going to insist on being on tty1 either
> way.
> 

You might ask the same question about getty at .service.

See logind.conf(5), specifically the description of NAutoVTs. Perhaps
the correct approach is to link autovt at .service to qingy at .service?