Kmscon

Kmscon is a virtual console that runs in userspace which David Hermann created to replace the Linux console, a terminal built into the Linux kernel. Kmscon uses the KMS driver for its output, it is multiseat-capable, and supports internationalized keyboard input and UTF-8 terminal output. The input support is implemented using X keyboard extension (XKB). Development of Kmscon was halted in March 2015. The project officially resumed in 2025, adopting the codebase from a fork maintained by Aetf since 2011. There was a successor project called but that project was later dropped in July 2015.