Console messages

Stephanie · 08-13-2003, 12:47 PM

I was wondering if anyone knows a way to keep the heading up on a console rather than losing it when you are typing things in.

I am referring to the header that states what the distro is and such. I obviously changed all that, but I am just curious if there is a way to make it stay up.

hexbit · 08-13-2003, 01:03 PM

I'm sure it can be done by passing something to the console program. For instance, in xterm you can do it by using the -title flag : xterm -title TitleGoesHere .. Try checking the manpages or docs of whatever console program you're using.

Stephanie · 08-13-2003, 02:12 PM

I tried man bash, but it yielded nothing for me.

BTW- This is for the actual console session of tty, not an X based terminal

kev82 · 08-13-2003, 03:46 PM

i dont think this is possible without hacking the virtual console code in the kernel. or finding a getty that supports this. i had a look at altenative getty's on sourceforge and none looked like they would support that.

Stephanie · 08-15-2003, 03:33 PM

Ok, well how about this. Is there a way to transfer the console to a different monitor, assuming you had a dual head setup. That way one could be the graphical and the otehr would display your command line.