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What prevents Linux kernel featured terminal (tty) from supporting true color and other fancy terminal features?
by shmerl 5y ago
What prevents Linux kernel featured terminal (tty) from supporting true color and other fancy terminal features?
- throwaway82652 5y agoNothing, things like this have existed for a while: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KMSCON https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KMSCON
- shmerl 5y agoHmm: > Development of Kmscon stopped in March 2015. There was a successor project called systemd-consoled, but this project was also later dropped in July 2015. That doesn't sound very promising. Why can't kernel itself ship a more advanced terminal?
- di4na 5y agoBecause noone is paid to do it.
- goldorak 5y agoThat's obviously not the reason, there is a lot of good stuff done by volunteers, it's niche and not enough ppl care about it.
- throwaway82652 5y ago>Why can't kernel itself ship a more advanced terminal? Probably because nobody wants to put opentype font rendering and input method support and various other things from a window system into the kernel? This stuff all has to be in userspace so you're better off just running a minimal X or Wayland server at that point.
- shmerl 5y agoWider color support hardly requires having complex font rendering features.
- SSLy 5y agoOpenSUSE liveCD from circa 2010 had a full size art background behind the console. Their art was green vertical stripes logo on bottom corner. So, only your distro willingness to configure it is the factor here.