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| author | ed <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-11-13 05:54:55 +0000 |
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| committer | ed <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-11-13 05:54:55 +0000 |
| commit | f49c0a7c600c8c62878936032e4c44846070a9b6 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e11d518cb9008f7a76b1c206c21c622e2874f34 /sys/conf | |
| parent | 6be882dd7a15b655a994c3205f67ef9393bd866e (diff) | |
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Switch the default terminal emulation style to xterm for most platforms.
Right now syscons(4) uses a cons25-style terminal emulator. The
disadvantages of that are:
- Little compatibility with embedded devices with serial interfaces.
- Bad bandwidth efficiency, mainly because of the lack of scrolling
regions.
- A very hard transition path to support for modern character sets like
UTF-8.
Our terminal emulation library, libteken, has been supporting
xterm-style terminal emulation for months, so flip the switch and make
everyone use an xterm-style console driver.
I still have to enable this on i386. Right now pc98 and i386 share the
same /etc/ttys file. I'm not going to switch pc98, because it uses its
own Kanji-capable cons25 emulator.
IMPORTANT: What to do if things go wrong (i.e. graphical artifacts):
- Run the application inside script(1), try to reduce the problem and
send me the log file.
- In the mean time, you can run `vidcontrol -T cons25' and `export
TERM=cons25' so you can run applications the same way you did before.
You can also build your kernel with `options TEKEN_CONS25' to make all
virtual terminals use the cons25 emulator by default.
Discussed on: current@
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/conf')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/conf/NOTES | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/conf/options | 1 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/conf/NOTES b/sys/conf/NOTES index a5b5f5d..d2059a4 100644 --- a/sys/conf/NOTES +++ b/sys/conf/NOTES @@ -1410,8 +1410,9 @@ options SC_NO_SUSPEND_VTYSWITCH # 0x100 Probe for a keyboard device periodically if one is not present # Enable experimental features of the syscons terminal emulator (teken). +options TEKEN_CONS25 # cons25-style terminal emulation options TEKEN_UTF8 # UTF-8 output handling -options TEKEN_XTERM # xterm-style terminal emulation +#options TEKEN_XTERM # xterm-style terminal emulation # # Optional devices: diff --git a/sys/conf/options b/sys/conf/options index dc35aa0..9c1dc7d 100644 --- a/sys/conf/options +++ b/sys/conf/options @@ -732,6 +732,7 @@ SC_RENDER_DEBUG opt_syscons.h SC_TWOBUTTON_MOUSE opt_syscons.h # teken terminal emulator options +TEKEN_CONS25 opt_teken.h TEKEN_UTF8 opt_teken.h TEKEN_XTERM opt_teken.h |
