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Diffstat (limited to 'hurd/console.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/console.mdwn | 33 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/console.mdwn b/hurd/console.mdwn index 55581870..c9f47afe 100644 --- a/hurd/console.mdwn +++ b/hurd/console.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ [[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, -2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +2012, 2013, 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ where the numbered nodes represent virtual consoles and their contents are all alike. As the following graph shows, the console, input and display nodes are the -interfaces used by the terminal server, input driver and display drivers -respectively. +interfaces used by the [[terminal server|translator/term]], input driver and +display drivers respectively. +------------------+ +-----------------+ | Input driver | | Terminal Server | @@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ respectively. +----------------+ +-----------------+ The input driver takes scancodes from the in-kernel kbd queue, translates them -into characters and writes them to the input node. Then the terminal server +into characters and writes them to the input node. Then the [[terminal +server|translator/term]] reads the console node taking the characters out of the console server. Each of theese actions is actually an RPC handled by the translator on @@ -110,7 +111,8 @@ Additional information about the console can be found in the [Hurd Console Tutor **_The new Hurd console features:_** -**A console server**, which provides a number of virtual consoles to term servers, with a full set of terminal capabilities. +**A console server**, which provides a number of virtual consoles to [[term +servers|translator/term]], with a full set of terminal capabilities. The console server supports any encoding supported by iconv, but uses Unicode internally. The default encoding is ISO8859-1, another useful variant is UTF-8. @@ -214,7 +216,7 @@ Available mouse protocols are: ### <a name="Setting_up_encoding"> Setting up encoding </a> -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_. +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 [[hurd/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 @@ -307,7 +309,13 @@ If you use mutt, install `mutt-utf8` package. For lynx, edit `/etc/lynx.cfg`, ma If you use other applications, try to search with google for "application-name utf8" or "application-name unicode". Often you find what you need. The issues are the same for the GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux systems, so most of the information can be shared, except how to setup the system console to support Unicode, of course. -The `console-server` watches for new hurdio terms (devices translated with `/hurd/term`) and adds them to `/dev/vcs` automatically. What this means is, if you create a new tty with `MAKEDEV`, and then attach something to it, it will now appear in `/dev/vcs`. When a term is disconnected from, it disappears from `/dev/vcs`. `/libexec/getty` is what is usually attached to a term. You can see this automatic adding and removing of terms from the `console-server` by typing the following: +The `console-server` watches for new [[hurdio terms (devices translated with +`/hurd/term`)|translator/term]] and adds them to `/dev/vcs` automatically. +What this means is, if you create a new tty with `MAKEDEV`, and then attach +something to it, it will now appear in `/dev/vcs`. When a term is disconnected +from, it disappears from `/dev/vcs`. `/libexec/getty` is what is usually +attached to a term. You can see this automatic adding and removing of terms +from the `console-server` by typing the following: # cd /dev # ls vcs/ @@ -444,6 +452,17 @@ Added examples that use repeaters needed by X. <Tekk_> started typing something different +## IRC, freenode #hurd, 2013-11-28 + + <Gerhard> I see a mouse cursor, but I'm not able to copy and paste. gpm is + not in the repository, right? + <youpi> copy/paste is not actually implemented yet + <youpi> so you can move the mouse, but clicks don't do anything :o) + <teythoon> ^^ + <Gerhard> ok, thx for the feedback. + <teythoon> i always wondered if it was just me >,< + + # Graphics/Higher Resolution ## IRC, freenode #hurd, 2012-04-24 |