On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 10:35:53AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 2023-10-10 10:26, Thomas Zimmermann via openSUSE Factory wrote:
> > fbiterm has been unmaintained for >15 years
>
> 8 years give or take; https://github.com/jengelh/fbterm/commits/master
>
> > But there's no good drop-in replacement.
>
> kmscon.
>
> $ cat /etc/kmscon/kmscon.conf
> font-name=Consoleet VGA 9x16
> font-size=32
>
> (systemctl enable kmsconvt@tty2)
>
> It even does CJK (which is what fb(i)term was previously used for).
It does not, however, use the kernel keymap, and does not support
changing the keymap on the fly which is something the installer abuses.
There is an laternative that does support this: mlterm-sdl. It is a
hassle to set up, though. And nobody cared to create and test the setup
for the installer to use mlterm instead of fbiterm.
Thanks
Michal
