On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > On 27/02/09 07:18, bill lam wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Tony Mechelynck wrote: >>> Xterm is not "without X", it just adds a buffer layer between the X >>> server and your text-based application. I have yet to see a "true" non-X >>> console, such as the ones you can access in runlevel 3 (multiuser with >>> network but no X) and into which you drop from X by hitting Alt-Ctrl-F2 >>> to Alt-Ctrl-F6 (and out of by Alt-Ctrl-F7), which could display more >>> than 8 background and 16 foreground colors with blink, or 16*16 without >>> blink. >> >> I've tried fbcon (a console under framebuffer), of course you have to >> boot into framebuffer to use it. > > I've used framebuffer before (under RedHat) and I don't like it, it sets > too much constraints on what kind of X settings I can use. Here (under > SuSE 11.1), my video hardwware is supported by "standard" drivers and I > like that better. But I haven't yet found how to boot the PAE kernel > over GRUB into other than 80 columns, 25 lines, 16 colours (or maybe 8 > bg, 16 fg, blink).
Regardless of whether you like them or not, framebuffer consoles can display millions of colors, mplayer can play full color movies in them (though it looks somewhat strange to see an mplayer window with no window manager decorations pop up), and I've heard that fbiterm (a terminal emulator that runs in the framebuffer console) can support 256 colors. ~Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
