Aryeh Hillman left as an exercise for the reader: > I am looking to either find or help create a better virtual console > experience on linux, especially in Debian. I am talking about tty1, tty2, > tty3, ... typically mapped via CTRL-ALT-F1. how would you like to improve it? if you'd like to e.g. run a more advanced KMS-based console, you might want to try kmscon in place of [a]getty. > - where does the virtual console code live for debian? the virtual console is implemented in the kernel. console-setup handles...console setup, with keyboard-setup as an input. > - is virtual console code distro-specific or does it ship with the > kernel? kernel > - are there any known efforts in this domain? what domain? i requested that some of the default unicode mappings change back in 2020: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965029 i'm sitting on a few kernel patches that i need break up to improve color handling in the VC. Notcurses (https://notcurses.com/) pushes the current framebuffer console pretty much as far as it will go in terms of UI components if you're looking to build applications that will run both there and in X/Wayland terminal emulators. -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.
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