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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 !
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 ?
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.
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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 ..
I think this is a terminal thing (konsole, only), but I may be wrong.
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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 ?
`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.
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!
Originally posted by introuble 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)
I think what you mean is a virtual terminal, in contrast to a terminal emulator (like xterm).
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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 ?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the text mode font of the monitor always the same?
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