kmscon
Linux KMS/DRM based virtual Console Emulator (by Aetf)
yaft
yet another framebuffer terminal (by uobikiemukot)
| kmscon | yaft | |
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| 4 | 6 | |
| 152 | 598 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| 4 months ago | 3 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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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
yaft
Posts with mentions or reviews of yaft.
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?
See kmscon, fbterm, and yaft.
- Convert ttf to, psf, psfu or another format that tty recognizes?
- Show HN: Primitive tool to record GIFs from terminal commands
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Wayland/X11 is bloat, any video players that run on cli direct to framebuffer?
and if you want better video quality you could try to use https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft to allow sixel support but i could never get any audio when using yaft
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Quick roundup of bitmap graphics availability in free/open-source terminal emulators
yaft - Framebuffer - Linux
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The year of the GNU/Linux gaming rig is nigh!
That's sixel based, so it isn't tty compatible (unless one compiles yaft from source, which is so esoteric that it isn't even packaged in Debian).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kmscon and yaft you can also consider the following projects:
libtsm - Terminal-emulator State Machine
darktile - :waning_crescent_moon: Darktile is a GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers.
kmscon - Linux KMS/DRM based virtual Console Emulator
DomTerm - DOM/JavaScript-based terminal-emulator/console
meson - The Meson Build System
alacritty - A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
cage - A Wayland kiosk
mintty - The Cygwin Terminal – terminal emulator for Cygwin, MSYS, and WSL
linux - Linux kernel source tree
kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
fakekmscon
vhs - Your CLI home video recorder 📼