This small python util allows to spawn a terminal emulator displayed on RaspberryPi with Waveshare E-paper 2.9 inch display.
- requires EPD driver from Waveshare's examples to work
- needs to run as root and have packages from
requirements.txtinstalled via pip
usage: paperterm.py [-h] [--no-loadkeys] [--loadkeys-config LOADKEYS_CONFIG]
[--term-width TERM_WIDTH] [--term-height TERM_HEIGHT]
[--log-file LOG_FILE] [--use-syslog]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--no-loadkeys Disable loadkeys being ran prior to shell
--loadkeys-config LOADKEYS_CONFIG
Config file for key remapping
--term-width TERM_WIDTH
Width of the terminal
--term-height TERM_HEIGHT
Height of the terminal
--log-file LOG_FILE Location of logfile
--use-syslog Use syslog for logging
To run this terminal instead of tty you will need a following file in Raspbian:
/etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/override.conf
[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/path/to/paperterm.py --use-syslog
StandardInput=tty
StandardOutput=tty
User=root
Note the - before the path.