Description

Provides updated packages for kmscon and libtsm, based on Aetf's fork.

Installation Instructions

Installation

sudo dnf copr enable jfalempe/kmscon
sudo dnf install kmscon

Enable kmscon for tty3

sudo systemctl disable getty@tty3
sudo systemctl stop getty@tty3
sudo systemctl enable kmsconvt@tty3
sudo systemctl start kmsconvt@tty3

There is an issue with selinux, so if you're prompted for login in loop, try with:

wget https://gitlab.com/kdj0c/copr-fedora/-/raw/main/kmscon/kmscon.te
checkmodule -M -m -o kmscon.mod kmscon.te
semodule_package -o kmscon.pp -m kmscon.mod
sudo semodule -i kmscon.pp

Then to switch to your kmscon, press ctrl+alt+F3 (and press ctrl+alt+F2 to come back to the graphical session).

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
Fedora 40	aarch64 (8)*, x86_64 (12)*	Fedora 40 (14 downloads)
Fedora 41	aarch64 (8)*, x86_64 (49)*	Fedora 41 (19 downloads)
Fedora 42	aarch64 (0)*, x86_64 (0)*	Fedora 42 (0 downloads)
Fedora rawhide	aarch64 (8)*, x86_64 (47)*	Fedora rawhide (13 downloads)

* Total number of downloaded packages.