Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Victor Westerhuis <vic...@westerhu.is> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : kmscon Version : 8+40 Upstream Author : Aetf <a...@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/
