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authored <ed@FreeBSD.org>2009-11-13 05:54:55 +0000
committered <ed@FreeBSD.org>2009-11-13 05:54:55 +0000
commitf49c0a7c600c8c62878936032e4c44846070a9b6 (patch)
tree6e11d518cb9008f7a76b1c206c21c622e2874f34 /usr.sbin/sade
parent6be882dd7a15b655a994c3205f67ef9393bd866e (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 'usr.sbin/sade')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/sade/termcap.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/sade/termcap.c b/usr.sbin/sade/termcap.c
index 3e80a41..d5f4892 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/sade/termcap.c
+++ b/usr.sbin/sade/termcap.c
@@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ set_termcap(void)
#else
if (ColorDisplay) {
if (!term) {
+#ifdef __i386__
if (setenv("TERM", "cons25", 1) < 0)
+#else
+ if (setenv("TERM", "xterm", 1) < 0)
+#endif
return -1;
}
}
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