kmscon
Linux KMS/DRM based virtual Console Emulator (by Aetf)
fakekmscon
By n3rdopolis
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0.0 | 5.6 | |
4 months ago | 6 days ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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kmscon
Posts with mentions or reviews of kmscon.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-22.
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Rendering UTF8 in the bare terminal?
So I click the link for the kmscon located in debian unstable (I could have picked testing, doesn't really matter). On that page there's a sidebar on the right, with a link titled "Homepage", that links to a github repo. I also checked a few other distros and this seems to be the fork everybody is using, so let's go with that.
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CONFIG_VT=n in 2023
There is a maintained fork: https://github.com/Aetf/kmscon
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KMSCon – A Userspace System Console That Does Not Depend on Any Graphics Server
FYI, seems like this fork is a lot more maintained, so you might have better luck with this.
https://github.com/Aetf/kmscon
fakekmscon
Posts with mentions or reviews of fakekmscon.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-17.
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CONFIG_VT=n in 2023
https://github.com/n3rdopolis/fakekmscon starts the getty process as root on a pty that a socat "server" provides. It then sets the owner of the communication socket file to allow a system non-root user to interact with it. The socat client that connects to it is called by foot that runs under cage, which all start as a non-root system user.
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Life without CONFIG_VT=y in 2021 on the Desktop
Obviously you don't have the text-mode fullscreen terminals anymore. It's possible to emulate them with cage, and vte though. But with no getty support (and no global CTRL+ALT+F(x)) that would be harder to manage... I did something very rudimentary https://github.com/n3rdopolis/fakekmscon to replace the VT terminals, but you still need the TTYs for CTRL+ALT+F(x) to work
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kmscon and fakekmscon you can also consider the following projects:
libtsm - Terminal-emulator State Machine
kmscon - Linux KMS/DRM based virtual Console Emulator
meson - The Meson Build System
cage - A Wayland kiosk
yaft - yet another framebuffer terminal
linux - Linux kernel source tree
kbd - Mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/legion/kbd.git