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On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Hi, List ! this is Czerno.
>
> It's been asked why I would rather run Lynx in a terminal window.
> I think the answer is rather evident : first, I have managed to have
> the national keyboard decoded in X but didn't bother to do so in the
> Linux console. More importantly, a windowed environment is the way to
> go for productivity, with several windows side by side & especially
> cut&pasting between windows...

I changed my console keyboard using loadkeys.
The console font already provides upper ascii characters.

You can run splitvt (41K in glibc version) and cut and paste between the 
top and bottom of the screen without a mouse (vi-like keystrokes).
It requires libtermcap (11K) and libnsl (343K).

Or cut and paste between two vts using gpm.  Or 'screen'.

> *STOP the press!* Was typing the above in all confidence in the JWM
> desktop, but the next moment I discovered that I couldn't select text
> from another window running rxvt/links! The mouse didn't work for
> selecting text in the latter. What the f*** ? Isn't it a function of
> the GUI/window manager to let the user cut and paste between
> application windows ? Arrrrgh! Now reluctantly back to MS-Windows :(
>
> Explanations, please !

> Written by Sindi :
> > I saw a lot of blank lines after the above.
>
> Indeed... Still not found how to effectively delete a line in lynx'
> built-in forms editor. Ctrl_U erases, i.e. blanks out, line contents
> but does not pop up any following lines. Ideas ?

Don't use webmail. Your rootshell.be offers 'An e-mail address login at 
rootshell.be readable online' (with mutt or pine?).

> > Also try without lynx.lss - it will give you different (default)
> > colors.
> > (Rename lynx.lss to lynx.lss.bak).
>
> Thank you for the tip.

Without lynx.lss in BL2 console mode, it is green on black.

> > How many different French keyboards are there?
> > The 101-key ones here all seem to be nearly identical except on
> laptops.
>
> The fact is, keyboard internals & PC-keyboard controllers vary
> widely. MS-Windows & full fledged, modern, (bloated?) Linux distros
> manage to cope with most automagically, whereas we poor BasicLinuxers
> shall have to do the hard work by hand, so to say...
>
> Was your question about French keyboard *layouts* though? There are
> basically the conventional 102-keys one and the "Windows" 105-keys,
> plus all kinds of fancy "net ready" keyboards. And of course one must
> add the Belgian, Canadian, Swiss, and other "French language
> keyboards" which have each their own key disposition. Think of the
> differences between US/UK/Canadian/Indian? English language
> keyboards...

Only differences I know are between my 84-key and the standard 101-key. 
We don't see UK or Indian ones here.

> > I saw a lot of blank lines after the above.
>
> Yep! I still can't find a way to persuade lynx' built-in forms editor
> to remove a line and pop-up the rest, rather than just erasing
> (Ctrl_U).
> Ideas ?


Don't use webmail.

Sindi

> Cheers !
> I hope you (and others including Steven of course) will be able to
> provide that compilation of completed fonts for BL3 soon...

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/xfonts-bl3-full.tgz  --  23K
(Sorry it took so long, freeshell stopped working in mid-upload).

Changed the name of the 75dpi lutBS24.pcf.gz to lutB24.pcf.gz

How is it specified which of the five BL3 misc (75dpi) fonts is used 
where?

The fonts could probably be made even smaller by removing the Copyright 
info but that might not be legal.

Sindi

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