kmscon is now hosted on freedesktop.org. Please don't use the github
links, anymore. I will push to github for some more weeks, but I recommend
to everyone to use my freedesktop.org repository as primary upstream link.
There were many reasons why github.com wasn't sufficient, anymore. But the
main reason is that they no longer provide upload space for release
tarballs. Hence, lets ditch github and move to freedesktop.org which
kindly provides everything we need plus a really nice mailing-list.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
xz is way better than bz2 with same/better decompression times.
Compression will take longer, but that's totally ok.
All new tarballs will be provided as xz only. Please adjust your
build-scripts to stop using bz2.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
This flag enables all other options that extend the build. It is used for
debugging only and should never be used by distributions to control what
is built. Hence, we don't document it and never advertise it.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
This introduces uvtd which replaces kmscon sessions as an external helper
program. It's still a dummy program but it will get extended soon. After
that, kmscon sessions will get removed and limited to a single seat. This
will simplify kmscon itself heavily and move rarely used features out of
kmscon into helpers.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
This is kmscon-7. See ./NEWS for a list of new features.
Unfortunately, github disabled the "Downloads" section so there is no way
to upload new pre-generated tarballs. I have a pending application to move
kmscon to freedesktop.org, but it didn't get processed in time for this
release. Therefore, you need to build the GNU-autotools files yourself.
That is, before calling ./configure you need to call:
NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
You can extend your build-scripts with:
test -f ./configure || NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
Which will call ./autogen.sh if needed. Everything else can be left
unchanged.
I will not upload the tarballs at another location. Feel free to do that
yourself, but I personally think this will introduce more confusion than
help. I hope the freedesktop.org move will be soon approved. This will
also provide a mailing-list where I can properly announce new releases.
Raw tarballs will be available as (without pre-generated autotools):
https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon/archive/kmscon-7.tar.gzhttps://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon/archive/kmscon-7.zip
The git-tag is: kmscon-7
You can use my public GPG key to verify the tarballs.
As usual, please report bugs to: https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
It currently isn't possible to pass empty lists to these arguments as it
will then be interpreted as default. Fix this by using "default" if it is
empty.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
No reason to disable static libraries. Remove the LT_INIT parameter so we
can provide statically linked libraries.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
UVT is based heavily on the old cdev-sessions. It uses CUSE/FUSE to
implement virtual terminals in user-space.
This move into a library allows to use it in other projects, too. There is
no reason to limit it to kmscon sessions. In fact, we will remove the
cdev-sessions, soon and make kmscon a stand-alone terminal emulator
without any session capability.
Instead, the uvtd program will provide the VT emulation.
This library is not finished, nor ready for use. However, feel free to
contribute patches so we can eventually release a stable API.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Unifont is a very nice font-backend that now has sane compilation times
(by using ld directly). It's recommended over 8x16 as it has proper
internationalization support.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Major overhaul of the build system. This introduces symbol-versioning for
all exported libraries. Please note that none of these libraries is
stable, yet!
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
We need the font layer to build wlterm. However, the font layer depends on
kmscon internal module handling so we cannot do this. To avoid this, we
simply provide dummy handlers for the kmscon_module_* layer and link it
anyway. This is kind of ugly but works, yey!
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
This renames the video-drm backend to drm3d (which was already used
internally). This is a pure rename, the code-logic stays the same.
This also puts the drm3d backend into a module so we can more easily
load it during runtime.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
This moves all the drm-dumb code into a new module that is now called
drm2d (which was already used internally before).
No conceptual changes, just renames and moves.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
This is an experimental renderer based on pixman. It is only available for
testing-purposes and should not be used in production, yet. The bbulk
renderer is still the faster alternative and should be used instead.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
The cairo text renderer uses the cairo blitting functions to blit all
glyphs into the cairo-surface. This is only for testing-purposes. Cairo is
not really suited for blending/blitting of large surfaces. Hence, this
backend is horribly slow compared to bblit/bbulk.
This backend is disabled by default.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Similar to the font backends we now require one backend to be always
available as safe fallback. The bblit backend is the most basic backend so
make it mandatory and link it unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
The freetype2 backend is no longer recommended. You should always prefer
the pango backend. Pango provides a lot more advanced font options and
internationalization.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
wlterm hasn't been updated for long and it will take some more time to get
it to work with recent Wayland protocol. Hence, disable it so it doesn't
matter if it breaks for now.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
We want to modularize the text-font library, so we need each backend as a
different library. This step links each of them into a different static
library so we can now link them either into the binary or into modules.
This step also makes 8x16 always compiled into the text-font backend so we
always have a working implementation even though no modules might be
loaded.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
We need udev_device_has_tag() which was introduced in version 172.
Document that in README file.
Reported-by: Manuel Rüger <mrueg@rueg.eu>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
This release contains a lot of fixes all over the place and introduces
many new features. See ./NEWS for a list of new features.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Our dependency checker should recursively report missing dependencies.
Otherwise, the user doesn't really know what is missing.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
The wayland compositor support was some research project that turned out
to not work that well. The main problem is that the DRM planes support
cannot be easily forwarded to a child. Sub-surface support might change
that but until then we remove compositor support.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Add a very basic man-page infrastructure so we can easily add new
docbook-style manpages.
Also add kmscon.1 man-page with a basic overview.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
We want only C-source files in ./src and the documents ./docs directory is
meant to contain any other sources.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
The logic behind this two-layer check is bogus and doesn't work. Merge
both layers so we have a proper dependency-check again. This will make the
error messages less verbose but at least it works again.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
This moves all systemd code into uterm_systemd.[ch]. This removes all the
ugly #ifdef's.
Furthermore, this fixes some hidden bugs in the previous implementation
and makes use of sd_booted() to see whether runtime systemd is really
available.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
We used to simply probe every GPU that is reported by the kernel. However,
if a system has multiple GPUs that share display controllers, we cannot
use both simultaneously. Unfortunately, the kernel currently does not
notify us about this. Hence, we use some heuristics to determine which GPU
is the boot-gpu/primary-gpu.
This only adds the detection logic, it does not modify any code to use
this detection at all.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
If libfuse is available then kmscon is built with a new session type: cdev
This session creates a fake TTY char-dev via CUSE (which itself uses FUSE)
which then can be used by user-space as if it were a real VT.
This is still incomplete and does only support basic I/O, yet. But it
shows in what direction this is going.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
We build several tools inside of this repository and we need to make sure
all dependencies are met. Furthermore, we must make sure that default
values are recognized even on dependencies.
Hence, this reworks the whole configure.ac handling and does some renaming
of the constants that are used all over the source.
We need to test this some more weeks, but it should finally be a proper
autotools handling that we can release with kmscon-6.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
This adds a wayland compositor which registers sessions for each top-level
window within kmscon. This means, you can run any arbitrary
wayland-application on kmscon. Each top-level window that is registered by
the applications is put into a separate session and you can switch between
the sessions with the previously introduced session-shortcuts.
The compositor is still very basic. It doesn't support input devices at
all (not even talking about DnD). The only thing it does is surface
management (and even that is not fully implemented).
However, this shows the direction that kmscon will go. You can run the
Wayland "simple-shm" and "simple-egl" demos on kmscon to see how it works.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
The variable xkbcommon_enabled was no longer nedded
after removing xkbcommon from the build configuration notice.
Signed-off-by: Detlef Riekenberg <wine.dev@web.de>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
We will be adding more applications to this repository, so to keep better
overview, we prefix kmscon sources with kmscon_*.
The only sources that have no prefix are either shared between
applications (i.e., statically linked) or they were not cleaned up, yet.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
We should use get_stride() if this check fails as this is the new
function. We use this check only for backwards-compatibility reasons but
should not require it to pass for new builds.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
AM_PROG_AR is a new feature since autoconf 1.12.
autogen.sh failed on Ubuntu 11.10 without this patch with:
configure.ac:30: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_AR
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
AM_PROG_AR is required only for autoconf-1.12 so we can just skip it if
using an autoconf version that does not include it.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Compiling with -Wl,--as-needed can cause the check for
gbm_bo_get_stride() to wrongly fail. Sanitize the environment further,
assuring that unneeded compiler flags are not involved in the conftest.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
We really need xkbcommon. There is so much stuff (including parsing of
keyboard shortcuts in conf.c) that depends on it. Therefore, we make it
mandatory now which allows us to use xkbcommon functions all over the
place.
Note that xkbcommon itself has no runtime dependencies so it is a small
self-contained library. The only reason I didn't do this ealier is that
xkbcommon has not seen a public release, yet. However, that should be done
in the near future.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
This is a stable release for kmscon. It includes mainly bugfixes and
cleanups. The TSM library was created out of the internal VTE layers and
mostly code-cleanups took place.
Happy testing!
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
I just noticed that older compiles do not support _Static_assert() so we
now check in configure.ac for it. We do not use it heavily, anyway.
Dynamic asserts are avoided entirely.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
wlterm needs xkbcommon as the wayland protocol depends on XKB states.
Hence, we add a hard-dependency for wlterm.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Sorry for the big commit, but I was working on the wlterm application and
then thought I can rework the whole configure-logic again. This mainly
renames all build-defines to BUILD_DEFINE_* and BUILD_HAVE_* and allows
specifying which applications to build via --enable-kmscon/--enable-wlterm
and similar.
wlterm is a new application which is a native wayland client with no
external dependencies. It serves several purposes:
* It uses TSM (not yet implemented, but will come soon) to create a
console independent from kmscon. This shows how TSM can easily be used
to create independent terminal emulators.
* It is a native wayland application (probably the first independent
wayland app so far?) and is used to test how well the wayland API
works. As wayland is still under heavy development, we need more
application-writers who report back whether the wayland-API makes
sense to them and whether it works correctly.
* A proper terminal-emulator for wayland! There is currently no proper
emulator so we really need something that we can work with.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
There is no need to make genshader being generated by configure, anymore.
We used to use @srcdir@ but this was not embedded into Makefile.am. Hence,
we can avoid this and make it build normally.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
libkms doesn't link to libdrm so our current check for gbm_bo_get_stride()
fails. This has been fixed upstream but distributions still need to pick
it up. Therefore, we simply add the drm libs to our checks. They are
available at this point, anyway.
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
