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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Moused is really nice!
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 17:06:51 GMT
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>> On Sun, 20 Apr 1997 20:36:56 CST, jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu
>> (Jim Dutton) said:
JD> I would like to thank the developers of the Moused daemon
JD> which works with the system consoles. Wow - I can NOW copy and
JD> paste console data or even whole console screens! NO MORE
JD> laborious, manual transcribing (sigh!).
It is nice indeed, but in general the FreeBSD console is not as usable
as the Linux one. When I still used Linux I did 50% on the console,
not in X11:
Linux consoles can display at high resolution and high refresh rates,
with different fonts, e.g. 100x40 or 120x50 at 80 Hz (whatever your
videoboard supports). They borrowed code from XFree and put this into
the SVGATextmode package. Alas I know virtually nothing from
videoboards, otherwise I might have given it a try under FreeBSD.
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