[systemd-devel] vt220 default for serial console still relevant?

[Daan De Meyer]

Hi,

I was playing around with mkosi's qemu support, more specifically adding
the -nographic option to have the virtual machine output in my terminal
instead of a separate window. After figuring out that I had to add
console=ttyS0 to mkosi's kernel command line, I got the output from the vm
in my terminal as expected. However, because systemd defaults to TERM=vt220
for serial consoles, the output is not colorized. I searched around a bit
and found that this is done for compatibility reasons. Will there ever be a
point where we can switch the default to something that supports colors
(like TERM=linux)?

I managed to get around the problem by overriding serial-getty at ttyS0 and
setting Environment=TERM=linux explicitly but it's a bit of a pain and has
to be added to every rootfs that wants to support colored output on its
serial console.

Cheers,

Daan
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