Hi Richard, Richard Riley <rileyrg <at> gmail.com> writes: > It depends fully on the terminal you are using and the corresponding > terminfo or whatever its called - a nightmare of complexity and hacks ;) > I tried this a good while back and, to my shame, simply gave up in > frustration. Hopefully you have better luck!
Maybe I'm wrong but isn't there a difference between a terminal (such as gnome-terminal) and a console? I do not have any graphical environment on the maschine I'm working on. I use a virtual console of the linux kernel. Karl