Hi,
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:21:24PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I think it comes from the RAM on your video card. Basically nothing
> overwrote the image that was there last time the card was in that mode.
> Text mode uses a much smaller (and possibly different) section of the
> RAM.
>
> > Anybody there who is working on it.????
>
> Is it a problem?
>
> You could blank the RAM somehow if it's important.
How would you do that (in a portable manner)? I think this could be
privacy-relevant sometimes.
I have the following snippet in my .bash_logout for similar reasons:
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# When leaving the console clear the screen to increase privacy.
# Also clears the scroll-back buffer.
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
case "$(tty)" in
/dev/tty[0-9])
t=$(v=`tty` ; echo ${v##*ty})
clear
chvt 63; chvt "$t"
;;
/dev/tty[0-9][0-9])
t=$(v=`tty` ; echo ${v##*ty})
clear
chvt 63; chvt "$t"
;;
*)
;;
esac
Uwe.
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