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authorOgnyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>2004-09-18 05:16:00 +0000
committerOgnyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>2004-09-18 05:16:00 +0000
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@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ or
That should work. The ncursesw driver supports console switching via _C-w C-1_ (or 2, 3, ...) and you can exit it with _C-w x_. However, the VGA client is more suitable on the local console.
+If you want repeater support (needed for X):
+
+ # console -d vga -d pc_kbd --repeat=kbd -d generic_speaker \
+ -d pc_mouse --repeat=mouse -c /dev/cons /dev/vcs
+
The virtual consoles you are now running on are providing an ISO8859-1 environment (also known as latin1), which is good enough for the USA and some countries in Europe. If you require a different encoding for your locale (like, let's say, ISO8859-2), you can specify this as an argument to the console server. I am sorry to say that fsysopts doesn't do the trick yet, so you have to set the option with `settrans -fg`, which will _terminate all your login sessions and restart the console server_.
To do this, _first_ exit the client. It will get disconnected anyway (and doesn't attempt to reconnnect yet in such a case). Then do a
@@ -137,6 +142,11 @@ or
If you are satisfied, copy your default font to `/lib/hurd/fonts/vga-system.bdf`, where it will be picked up automatically in favor to the graphic card's font.
+If you want to use repeater (needed for X):
+
+ # console -d vga --font 9x15.bdf -d pc_kbd --repeat=kbd -d generic_speaker \
+ -d pc_mouse --repeat=mouse -c /dev/cons /dev/vcs
+
### <a name="More_about_fonts"> More about fonts </a>
While we are talking about fonts, try also the 8x13O font with `--font-italic` and 8x13B or 9x15B font with `--font-bold`. You can save them in `/lib/hurd/fonts/vga-system-bold.bdf` and `/lib/hurd/fonts/vga-system-italic.bdf`, too.
@@ -226,3 +236,7 @@ There are several patches for the console on savannah to deal with the shortcomm
An [experimental plugin to load XKB keymaps](http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/xkb-0.3.tar.gz) exists, although it is alpha quality.
-- [[Main/MarcoGerards]] - 28 May 2004
+
+Added examples that use repeaters needed by X.
+
+-- [[Main/OgnyanKulev]] - 18 Sep 2004