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> is there a way to tell Linux to not use its own console framebuffer driver for displaying TTYs, but rather to instead spawn some userland libsdl binary and co
by zokier 5y ago
> is there a way to tell Linux to not use its own console framebuffer driver for displaying TTYs, but rather to instead spawn some userland libsdl binary and connect it to the raw framebuffer?
That's almost how frecon (and kmscon/systemd-consoled before it) works.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/frecon/+/refs/heads/master/README.md https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/frecon...
- derefr 5y agoCool, that's exactly the type of thing I was picturing. Is this used or packaged in any major Linux distribution besides ChromiumOS? I'd like to try out living inside this for a while (probably in a fullscreened VM) but CrOS is a bit too restrictive/unfamiliar as a userland for me to want to attempt it there. I guess Crouton exists, but I'd be afraid that Crouton would add an additional layer of impedance-mismatch to the VT that isn't there when just using it raw (like the kind you get when using tmux-in-ssh-in-tmux.)
- zokier 5y agohttps://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kmscon-patched-git/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kmscon-patched-git/ Maybe? I haven't tried it