[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 88900] starting weston from kmscon "scrambles" the display

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88900

--- Comment #8 from David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to James from comment #6)
> Hmm - ok.  What is the long-term solution?  It is not good to have a program
> that will "screw up your hardware state", regardless of the circumstances.

Don't use 'weston-launch' or 'startx' or anything like it on production
systems. Use proper login-managers, which make sure to assign a fresh VT to the
compositor.

> I'm still confused, though.  David, on your blog, about kmscon, you say "In
> 2014, I stopped working on it. We implemented a replacement in systemd,
> based on the lessons learned on KMSCON."  What is that kmscon replacement?

It's still being worked on. It's called systemd-console.

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