{"id":238292,"date":"2026-05-02T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/kde-linux-now-using-kmscon-for-a-better-vt-console-experience\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:15:09","slug":"kde-linux-now-using-kmscon-for-a-better-vt-console-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/kde-linux-now-using-kmscon-for-a-better-vt-console-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE Linux Now Using KMSCON For A Better VT Console Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/KDE-Linux-KMSCON-Experience\">KDE Linux Now Using KMSCON For A Better VT Console Experience<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/KDE-Linux-KMSCON-Experience\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/KDE-Linux-KMSCON-Experience<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-02 13:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KDE Linux continues making progress as the in-house Linux distribution to best showcase the latest KDE Plasma desktop innovations.<\/p>\n<p>With the start of the new month comes a new monthly progress report on KDE Linux via KDE developer Nate Graham. One of the most interesting changes in April is KDE Linux now moving from the in-kernel VT to the user-space KMSCON software for their console experience.\n<\/p>\n<p>This merge by Hadi Chokr switched to KMSCON for a &#8220;safer and better&#8221; TTY experience. The rationale is better security, mouse\/touchpad support, scrolling, multi-seat, hardware acceleration, and more. Fedora 45 is planning to use KMSCON by default while GNOME OS already switched to KMSCON by default. Here&#8217;s their showcase of it albeit not doing it justice for demonstrating the greatness of KMSCON experience:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=kde_linux_kmscon\" alt=\"KDE Linux KMSCON\"\/><\/p>\n<p>KDE Linux also added screen reader support for its installer, IPv6 privacy addressing by default, the new Union theming system by default for QML apps, and various other enhancements.<\/p>\n<p>More details on these KDE Linux improvements during the month of April can be found via Nate Graham&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/KDE-Linux-KMSCON-Experience\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KDE Linux Now Using KMSCON For A Better VT Console Experience https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/KDE-Linux-KMSCON-Experience Publish Date: 2026-05-02&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=kde_linux_kmscon","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[97,71,57],"class_list":["post-238292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-fedora","tag-linux","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238294,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238292\/revisions\/238294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}