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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Very small console CD player for BL, was Re: BL3 + Sound Blaster
  • Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 22:54:32 +0000 (UTC)


Since 'workbone' is a non-X application the menu becomes visually
strange.
Is there a way of working around it? ( Just for curiousity: This isn't
so
important after all ) .

Ctrl-Alt-F2 gets you a full-screen terminal to run it in, white on
black.

I think this will work. Can I put 'Ctrl-Alt-F2' in a shell script?

I don't know how. Is this difficult to remember?
To return back, type Ctrl-Alt-F5 (or maybe in BL3 it is -F4).



"In order to save space, most of the fonts in BL3 have been stripped of
international characters". (This is the fonts in misc).


I intend to look for Slackware 4.0 fonts as suggested.
I need the international fonts, with accents ( latin america, or
portuguese-br, which allows me having words like " àçêntüádô ", for
example).


Xvesa has built-in fonts 5x8 and 6x13, and fonts.dir also lists 9x15 11x19
14x24 r14 and r12

I just checked workbone with the default font and most of the characters are blanks, but with 6x13 I see upper ASCII (instead of line drawing characters that you would see in a console).

The others I tested don't include upper ascii, including built-in 5x8.

To make this the permanent font:

Menu, Edit Settings, JWM menu, rxvt - I think you can just add -fn 6x13 after the 'rxvt'.

You can use different fonts in console mode. Ctrl-Alt-F2 to reach console (terminal) 2. You can change fonts using kbd.tgz fonts and setfont. (You may need to change the mapping - I did for Cyrillic, using setfont iso02.f16 -u /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/u to get Latin 2 with the characters in the right places).


The problem seems to be that in rxvt workbone displays the upper instead
of lower ascii characters. Capital A with umlaut instead of a horizontal
line, etc.

The upper ascii characters are what you need to show Portuguese characters. The standard fonts except ones starting in cl have upper ascii characters, but Steven omitted them to save space.


By now I can say I'm satisfied with the aspect "sound".
Good.

I appreciate your help with my hard drive but I think it is physically messed up. PQM is complaining again about drive geometry and it will not boot to linux if installed as a slave (from a DOS partition on MA) but I can use it by booting to DOS floppy disk and then to linux.

I'll be working on it a little more and if I can do something useful then
I'll write back.

Thanks again,

Teixeira


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