Hi, Modoranu Alexandru wrote: > 1) I've seen it has been previously proposed, but couldn't a patch be > applied in order to facilitate console scrolling? That would be useful. Although we can work around the problem with redirecting command output to a file and the using 'cat --more' or 'edit' to view it, a proper solution would be nice. There has been some brainstorming about whether such functionality is better implemented in the console or in the shell. I think at present time the only possibility is to do it in the console. I think it would not be terribly difficult.
> 2) What if Alt+Fn key combination is not available on the keyboard? Currently we use Fn to switch between VCs, There is a proposal to change this to Alt+Fn (http://trac.helenos.org/ticket/43) but that has the obvious problem you mention. One typical scenario is running in an emulator under a windowing system that captures Alt+Fn for some hot keys. Another case is serial terminals (here it can be remedied by mapping some key sequences to key combos using dead keys). > Couldn't a way of registering a key combination be possible? > something along the line of : rgk (register keys) <combination> Not sure what this is supposed to do. Surely there are several possibilities of handling the problem. You could introduce some key remapping feature, or keymap modding feature or some configuration facility in the console server to change the keys used to switch VCs. The configuration could be by user at run-time or somehow based on the actual capabilities of the keyboard device... As you can see, there are many possibilities. You should judge if any of them is doable in a quite limited time frame... Cheers -Jiri > > > _______________________________________________ HelenOS-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.modry.cz/cgi-bin/listinfo/helenos-devel
