On 04/07/2022 02:47, Joseph Carter wrote:
I recently wound up with an ulltrawide monitor that is effectively a 4k screen with a haircut at 1600 lines … and I'm legally blind. So let me say that I greatly appreciate this package and the ease with which I specified a custom DPI to get readable fonts at the console—thank you for packaging it.I also appreciate the standard getty fallback. The other distribution thus far that seems to have kmscon as an option is arch (because of course it does) and … they describe configuring a specific tty for getty in case kmscon fails. An automatic fallback seems more elegant.
Thank you for your praise.
> That said, it behaves a bit strangely prior to logging in, and these things cause minor usability issues. Chief among these is that backspace doesn't work. My password is deliberately not short (as in xkcd 936 not short), and I sometimes mistype it. I've learned that the backspace key does not work at this login prompt.
This is indeed an error. I will try to get this fixed.
It is caused by running /bin/login directly instead of using (a)getty. I'll see what the best solution is, but the fastest solution is to update the shipped systemd unit file to use agetty. In some quick testing on my own computer, this fixes both issues.It also doesn't display /etc/issue which might be a symptom of the same issue, being a different login process than is typically used by Debian at the console? There might be a workaround, in that case, to run the more traditional login process under kmscon, but I haven't really researched that yet and that wouldn't change the default anyway, so a report is still warranted IMO.
I'll see if I can get a new version uploaded today. -- Victor Westerhuis <vic...@westerhu.is>
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