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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Console configuration
Date: 16 Aug 1995 14:17:43 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Robert Sanders <rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com> wrote:
>I no longer see stuck modifiers with pcvt, so that's a step forward.
That's rather interesting. The console drivers do absolutely nothing
with the modifier keys while X is running, they simply pass all key
scan codes unseen to the X server.
>HOWEVER, there are a few features I'd like to see. Call me a
>perfectionist.
>
> a) More powerful keyboard remapping. Under Linux, I could make
We, too. It's on Hellmuth's wish list to totally revamp the keyboard
code.
> b) Scrollback history. syscons does this very nicely.
Not yet actually on the table of somebody, though i believe it would
be useful.
> c) Bold. I understand that the intensity bit has been stolen for
> character set selection, but I don't *need* alternate character
> set. Can't I take it back?
I don't see a good way. The driver does always perform character
mapping.
Why don't 8 available colors suffice you? You can even fine-grain
control the color appearance on a VGA (for each VT, so they can be
optically distinguished).
> d) Proper display of VT100 line graphics sequences. I just get
Not even i do understand why they don't work -- they are supposed to,
and if you've got a look at the demo files (in /usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/
Demos), you can see that they work. There's something magic to enable
them, which should perhaps be turned on by default.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
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