Package: kmscon Version: 9.0.0-1+b1 Severity: minor I recently wound up with an ulltrawide monitor that is effectively a 4k screen with a haircut at 1600 lines … and I'm legally blind. So let me say that I greatly appreciate this package and the ease with which I specified a custom DPI to get readable fonts at the console—thank you for packaging it.
I also appreciate the standard getty fallback. The other distribution thus far that seems to have kmscon as an option is arch (because of course it does) and … they describe configuring a specific tty for getty in case kmscon fails. An automatic fallback seems more elegant. That said, it behaves a bit strangely prior to logging in, and these things cause minor usability issues. Chief among these is that backspace doesn't work. My password is deliberately not short (as in xkcd 936 not short), and I sometimes mistype it. I've learned that the backspace key does not work at this login prompt. It also doesn't display /etc/issue which might be a symptom of the same issue, being a different login process than is typically used by Debian at the console? There might be a workaround, in that case, to run the more traditional login process under kmscon, but I haven't really researched that yet and that wouldn't change the default anyway, so a report is still warranted IMO. -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages kmscon depends on: ii libc6 2.33-7 ii libdrm2 2.4.110-1 ii libegl1 1.4.0-1 ii libgbm1 22.0.5-1 ii libgles2 1.4.0-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.72.3-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.50.7+ds-1 ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.50.7+ds-1 ii libpixman-1-0 0.40.0-1 ii libsystemd0 251.2-7 ii libtsm4 4.0.2-0.3 ii libudev1 251.2-7 ii libxkbcommon0 1.4.0-1 kmscon recommends no packages. kmscon suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
