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  • From: "David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] HTTPD
  • Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:27:26 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, David Moberg wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
> >
> >> Could I add to .xinitrc as first line 'resizecons 80x25'? My only
> >> serious problem with Xvesa other than on one laptop is that it
> >> messes up my console when it exits.
> > ^^^^^^^^
> > Xinitrc is executed when X starts up. How would that help?
>
> I have rc.S set to 'resizecons 80x30'. (I had to do this three
> times in a row to get a full 30 lines instead of just 25 lines of
> smaller text). If I go into Xvesa with the virtual terminals set to
> 80x30, then things get very messed up and I lose my cursor in MDA
> or VGA (when I exit Xvesa). Exiting from 80x30 to plain 80x25
> should eliminate this particular problem with Xvesa (assuming I
> have not also loaded another font).
>
> I could perhaps do this in an alias instead:
> 'resizecons 80x25; xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa ....'
>
> I will experiment with this. Is there some way to set up an alias
> so that when I exit it goes back to 80x30?

resizecons 80x25; startx; resizecons 80x30
^ Try that. You can make it into an alias.

> Or maybe a script to do
> this instead? Is .xinitrc a script? The main problem is however
> forgetting to go back to 80x25 before Xvesa and ending up in a mess
> without cursors.
>
[what kind of mice are causing trouble?]
> All PS/2 mice. I have a source of free mice and will just keep
> trading until they all work with everything. I want to keep the
> serial ports free for use with external modem and nullmodem cable.

gpm in repeater mode may help, and/or a different Xserver.

David
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