Re: Userspace VT consoles in copr

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On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM Pramod V U via devel
<devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Sorry for poking in, but why have kmscon, a complete re-implementation, run over then DRM when a generic and well-tested combination of a wayland compositor and a terminal emulator, like cage+foot, do the work just as well?

To put it bluntly, if someone wants a stupidly minimal thing without
any "graphical stack", then kmscon would be the choice here. I
personally don't think it's a great choice, but it's a valid one.

I suggested the idea of using a Wayland compositor plus a GUI terminal
application at Linux Plumbers Conference a few years ago, which led
down the rabbit hole of ensuring the DRM subsystem is as bulletproof
as the VT subsystem it would replace. Same for Wayland environments.

Today, I think the only Wayland environment I would consider at that
level is KWin, since it can restart itself in a crash without losing
the session or running applications. No other Wayland compositor has
this feature.





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