On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:05:40AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Brandon Falk <bfalk_...@brandonfa.lk> wrote: > > > I havent tried tmux yet, but on my system im only able to get > > 80x40 with vidcontrol on one monitor. But with xterm in xorg > > i can get 319x89 per monitor ... > > To get higher resolution than what vidcontrol provides, you'll most > likely need to run the display in graphic mode (which is what X11 > does) rather than in text mode. That means that you will need to > either use, or reinvent, the lowest levels of X (display driver, > window mapping) and at least part of the xterm/rxvt application > (terminal emulation, font rasterizing, perhaps scrolling). You > could, however, eliminate the X practice of using the network to > connect the terminal emulator to the display; this would give you > an architecture resembling SunView (and its predecessor, SunTools). > > I _think_ SunTools/SunView were proprietary, although it's possible > that Sun released the source code at some point. You could try > doing some research with Google and/or the Internet Archive.
I don't think they ever released that code. If you want re-use the lowest levels of the X11 drivers, you ought to check out the "Wayland" project. http://wayland.freedesktop.org -Kurt _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
