Gonna try this another day…

Ponyhof

KMSCON is a KMS/DRM-based system console with an integrated terminal emulator. It was designed to replace the linux-kernel-console and virtual terminals (VTs). When run in default-mode, KMSCON allocates a virtual terminal and provides a terminal-emulator on it. It can thus be used as drop-in replacement for the linux-console and agetty. Compared to the linux-console, KMSCON provides a rich set of enhanced features including full-internationalized keyboard handling, full UTF8 input/font support, hardware-accelerated rendering, multi-seat support and more.

If run in listen-mode, KMSCON can also replace virtual terminals. This allows to run multiple graphics-servers (like kmscon, X-Server, Wayland Compositors) simultaneously on all seats not only on the default seat seat0.

Parts of this article expect the reader to be familiar with the term multi-seat. KMSCON runs on single-seat and multi-seat setups, but to understand the terms used here, you should read up on Wikipedia. On linux…

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