Re: Change size of terminal window?
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 05:48:08PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:27:30PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> > I'd like to change the size of the terminal window shown on screen.
> >
> > I'm a Debian newbie. I've got Debian installed on our rather nice new
> > VALinux rackmount box and I've got it hooked up to a Mitsubishi TFT
> > flatscreen monitor. I don't have X running, and I'm doing everything in
> > text mode.
> >
> > At the moment, while the "Intel" picture on startup uses the whole screen
> > fine, as soon as Lilo loads linux, the console fills only about 1/4 of the
> > area of the screen.
>
> WAG: try the framebuffer console?
</lurk> okay, what's a framebuffer console?
I've been using SVGATextMode to reasonably good effect, changing
font size and rows/columns grow/contract to match... don't know
about this framebuffer term, tho.
And wasn't Rory asking about an xterm window? Does framebuffer
apply to that, too?
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