On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 07:39, lina <lina.lastn...@gmail.com> wrote: <snip> > But things get weired, everything is normal on the tty terminal, but > on console (hope it's the right name for it).
Setting aside the rest for the moment, we should clarify terminology. When you log in without a GUI, or switch to them with ctrl-alt-F1 (etc), you are dealing with TTYs. That is clear. Then things get confusing because in casual conversation, people overload meanings. Terminal is a TTY, but people often use the word for any command line interface, notably for terminal emulators, which are the windows in X that have a command line. Xterm is the "default" terminal emulator, and people sometimes call any terminal emulator (rxvt, gnome-terminal, konsole) an "xterm". Console should be (or was) a piece of hardware acting as a terminal. But now its meaning is often as vague as terminal. When the distinction matters, I find it it easiest to say "TTY" for ctrl-alt-F1 etc. and "xterm" or "terminal emulator" for command line windows in X. Yes, it is annoying. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=84dno1hucyr4+gi61nfgrxfc+vx7dg-lfk9v0u6kx...@mail.gmail.com
