xf86-video-dummy compared to xf86-video-dummy-with-vt?

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

John T Davis, le lun. 06 juil. 2020 23:12:52 -0500, a ecrit:
> How does this version of the driver differ from the xf86-video-dummy (that is,
> without the virtual terminal)? What exactly is different for the end user?

The difference is that the user can actually type on the PC keyboard
and things work as expected. For instance, control-C doesn't kill the X
server.

Put another way, with this patch the X server behaves very much like a
normal X server, except that it doesn't display anything.

> Would switching to the with-vt driver give me access to the TTY consoles over
> SSH?

No. It really is not the purpose.

Samuel