Bug#1004919: ITP: kmscon -- Simple terminal emulator based on Kernel Mode Setting
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Victor Westerhuis <victor@westerhu.is>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : kmscon
Version : 8+40
Upstream Author : Aetf <aetf@unlimitedcodeworks.xyz>
* URL : https://github.com/Aetf/kmscon
* License : Expat
Programming Lang: C
Description : Simple terminal emulator based on Kernel Mode Setting
kmscon is a system console for linux. It does not depend on any
graphics-server on your system (like X.org), but instead provides
a raw console layer that can be used independently.
It can replace the linux kernel console entirely but was designed to
work well side-by-side, too.
Even though initially targeted at providing internationalization to
the system-console, it has grown into a fully modularized console
layer including features like multi-head support, internationalized
font rendering, XKB-compatible keyboard handling,
hardware-accelerated graphics access and more.
I have used this package since Linux dropped scrollback support
from the kernel in 2020 [1]. The original upstream [2] has been
dead since 2014, but Aetf has picked up development.
Kmscon depends on a newer, forked version of libtsm. I'll file
a separate bug to address that.
[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.9-Drops-Soft-Scrollback
[2]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/
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