Chuck, Dan, Andrew,
this is exactly what I was looking for. The manpages of resozeterm
and the mentioning of KEY_RESIZE in getch()'s input queue gives a
good solution to call a specific function when in any input loop.
The needed information about the new screen dimensions can then
easily be obtai
Yes--
On Jul 23, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> Cool - I planned to use (n)curses anyway. But one question remains:
> Is there an "interrupt line" (or something functionally similar,
> a flag or whatever) that will give the chance for a notification
> if LINES or COLS has recently changed,
In the last episode (Jul 23), Polytropon said:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:44:27 -0300 (ADT), "A. Wright" wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Polytropon wrote:
> > > Is there a way to easily determine the terminal output size at program
> > > startup so the program can be preconfigured for certain s
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:44:27 -0300 (ADT), "A. Wright" wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Polytropon wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to easily determine the terminal output size at
> > program startup so the program can be preconfigured for certain
> > screen sizes, and even refuse to run if it's less t
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Polytropon wrote:
Is there a way to easily determine the terminal output size at
program startup so the program can be preconfigured for certain
screen sizes, and even refuse to run if it's less than 80x25?
The "curses" library will do this. The variables LINES and COLS
I'm going to write a program that will be a text mode application.
In FreeBSD, the default text mode screen size is 80x25. Also, many
terminal emulators for X default to that size, as well as SSH
clients used in the "Windows" land.
Allthough 80x25 sounds alot, it may be useful
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>I just installed 6.0 on a Dell c640.
>
>I dont want to run X.
>
>I have a nice little 600x480 screen within my 14.1 lcd. How can I
get >the
>virtual console to take up the whole screen?
Use "vidcontrol -i mode" to list modes then set the one you lik
On Apr 25 at 18:04, "C M" wrote:
> I just installed 6.0 on a Dell c640.
>
> I dont want to run X.
>
> I have a nice little 600x480 screen within my 14.1 lcd. How can I get the
> virtual console to take up the whole screen?
A lot of times there's a wacky function-??? key combination that "zoom
--- C M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just installed 6.0 on a Dell c640.
>
> I dont want to run X.
>
> I have a nice little 600x480 screen within my 14.1
> lcd. How can I get the
> virtual console to take up the whole screen?
Poked about and found vidcontrol.
That might be able to do what
I just installed 6.0 on a Dell c640.
I dont want to run X.
I have a nice little 600x480 screen within my 14.1 lcd. How can I get the
virtual console to take up the whole screen?
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I am trying to install headless over a serial console using cu on
another machine that I am connected to via SSH.
system to be installed <- cu session <- working FreeBSD system <- ssh
session <- local system (me)
My problem is that the text for the install is not aligned properly
making the optio
Please respond to my email address as I am not subscribed to a newsgroup. I was
subscribed until I started getting tons of SPAM.
I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a 32 MB Nvidia GeForce2 Go video card. I have
FreeBsd 5.1 loaded. I am not able to get the screen size to 1600x1200. The max
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Subject: Screen size
Greetings
I recently installed FreeBSD 4.5 with desk top KDE using a CD that came
with the book, FreeBSD Unleashed, by Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann.
Everything seemed to go fine until I execute startx. The desktop
environment on my screen "
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:23:08 -0500, Talbot wrote:
> I recently installed FreeBSD 4.5 with desk top KDE using a CD that
> came with the book, FreeBSD Unleashed, by Michael Urban and Brian
> Tiemann. Everything seemed to go fine until I execute startx.
> The desktop environment on my screen "seem
Yea - I keep submitting a request to the XFree86 folk. I have never had
success with the graphifical program. Use one of the text based programs.
There are xf86cfg and xf86config, as I recall.
Basicall you need the Horizontal and Vertical rates and you need to make
sure the screen size and depth
Greetings
I recently installed FreeBSD 4.5 with desk top KDE using a CD that came with the book,
FreeBSD Unleashed, by Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann. Everything seemed to go fine
until I execute startx. The desktop environment on my screen "seems" to be at least
four times as big as it sho
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Joe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Joe and I am totally new to FREEBSD.
>
> I have spent over 2 days trying to install this software but no matter
> what I do the desktop size always ends up being too big.
>
> If I click on alt + ctrl + - or + nothing happens. Tryed altering t
If I click on alt + ctrl + - or + nothing happens.
Tryed altering the
xf86config file it won't let me.
- in whichever section you choose (16 or 24)
add a line
Modes "1024x768"
With respect to the plus and minus keys; are you using
the ones on the keypad? I believe only the one
Sorry about the top level reply. I missed the
original posting.
With respect to the plus and minus keys; are you using
the ones on the keypad? I believe only the ones on key
pad work.
Sorry I am stuck on another machine (not fbsd),
otherwise I would have tried it out.
Pete
--- Lee Harr <[EMAIL
I have spent over 2 days trying to install this software but no matter
what I do the desktop size always ends up being too big.
If I click on alt + ctrl + - or + nothing happens. Tryed altering the
xf86config file it won't let me.
Are you editing the file as root?
Why is this so hard seriously its
Hello,
My name is Joe and I am totally new to FREEBSD.
I have spent over 2 days trying to install this software but no matter
what I do the desktop size always ends up being too big.
If I click on alt + ctrl + - or + nothing happens. Tryed altering the
xf86config file it won't let me.
Why is
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