bug#81428: 31.0.90; add support for the kmscon terminal emulator

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:02:51 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs
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> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:39:13 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
> 
> > Cc: Sven Joachim <[email protected]>
> > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:04:51 +0200
> > From: Sven Joachim via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Kmscon (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/) is a simple
> > terminal emulator based on Linux kernel mode setting. It is an attempt
> > to replace the in-kernel VT implementation with a userspace console.
> > 
> > Starting with version 10.0.0, kmscon uses its own terminfo entry by
> > default.  Although it supports 24-bit TrueColor mode, I found that
> > M-x list-colors-display only lists eight colors.  The attached patch
> > rectifies that, giving me the same colors as with TERM=xterm-direct.
> 
> Thanks, but could you please add a NEWS entry that calls out this
> addition?

I added a NEWS entry myself and installed the changes.

I'm therefore closing this bug.