Non-negotiable item 1) My eyes aren't what they used to be, and I find
80x48 on a 19-inch CRT in bright cyan text on black to be much easier on
the eyes than GUIs.
Non-negotiable item 2) I have certain items that I prefer to handle in
separate sessions.
I read news and email on text-consoles, but I have them set up to
launch a Firefox tab when I hit {SHIFT-U}. Then I can hit {ALT-F7},
view a webpage referenced in a post, and then hop back to where I was.
The problem with having an X session open is that the console that
opened it is bombarded with all sorts of crap messages about "style-file
not found", "font not found" etc. This renders the console from which X
was launched unusable for anything else.
So I'm down to 5 usable consoles in the region between {CTRL-ALT-F1}
and {CTRL-ALT-F6}, and sometimes that isn't enough. At first, I thought
that "screen" would be the answer. However, its colour support sucks,
especially if you're trying to use colour-coded syntax in vim. And I
find that even if I can get a session set up "properly", when I flip
away, and then flip back, it does *NOT* restore properly.
I've looked through "make menuconfig" and manually paged through
/usr/src/linux/.config, and there's nothing obvious to me about changing
the number of available text consoles. I'd like to have {CTRL-ALT-F1}
through {CTRL-ALT-F10} available for text consoles, which would still
leave #11 for X, and #12 for the very few times that I ever launch two
simultaneous X sessions.
I'm asking here, because I want to do this in a Gentoo-legal manner
that doesn't get clobbered the next time I build a new kernel or
whatever.
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Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will
eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure,
and has a lower TCO, than linux.
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