terminal configuration: font, cursor, bell, screensvr;dhcpcd
 

Good day !

I have some questions about terminal configuration . When I say "terminal" I mean "text-mode", the console, the CLI, not xterm, not konsole, nor anything else . I'm talking about what you get when you have no GUI on a Linux box . (a shell, in a terminal)

My system is Gentoo Linux 2005.1 , kernel 2.6.12-r9 (genkernel)

So .. about this terminal:

1. How do I make the terminal font be the same as the default "system" font ? I mean .. The font of the text that appears when you turn on your computer; before you boot any operating system . (in FreeBSD, you'd simply say the font is "None" .. default hardware font or something) . How do I achieve this in Linux ?

2. How do I make the terminal cursor appear as a "block" instead of an "underscore" ? And how do I make it stop blinkinh ?

3. How do I activate the terminal "audio" bell ? I.e.: if you are at the begining of the shell prompt and you press backspace, you should hear a beep .. or when you press TAB trying to make auto-completion but more than one file would "match" etc. ... I remember Slackware had this audio bell turned on by default ..

4. Right now after a cirtain period of time, the screen goes blank. Can I put a terminal screen saver instead ? (how?) . And how do I specify after what period of inactivity it should appear ?

And for a dhcpcd question:

I run dhcpcd because I need DHCP for my network interface eth0 . It works fine but when I do netstat -ap , I see dhcpcd is there, listening . I was wandering .. is this necessery ? is there a security risk ? rl0 is configured during boot, isn't it ? So why would dhcpcd remain up ? If this can be avoided, please tell me how.

That's about it for now, thank you for your attention !

Re: terminal configuration: font, cursor, bell, screensvr;dhcpcd
 

I will answer these when I get home frmo work, in a rush now - you can look up any kind of bash configuration on Google. You will edit your ~/.bashrc and/or ~/.bash_profile files.

I think this is a terminal thing (konsole, only), but I may be wrong.

`xscreensaver-demo` will activate it, put in --nosplash to activate it at bootup and `xscreensaver-command -activate` will start it up, `xscreensaver-command -lock` will password protect it.

Good luck with the rest.

HTH

Bump.

I also would like to know how to configure the textmode terminal in a [NON X!!!] system. The screen blanking is annoying. I know how to set it manually, but I'm not sure where to find the default setting for the blank time. Any help would be appreciated!

Art

P.S. This has nothing to do with xscreensaver :P

Re: terminal configuration: font, cursor, bell, screensvr;dhcpcd
 

I think what you mean is a virtual terminal, in contrast to a terminal emulator (like xterm).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the text mode font of the monitor always the same?