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My server has a VGA and several USB connectors to display the console. I am still using sc as it works well and I do have a running setup which fit my needs. But I am using sc only in case of hardware changes. My daily use is connection with ssh through my Desktop Terminals. I also don't have a...

I have just installed FreeBSD 13.1 on a laptop. I have a resolution of 1920x1080 but only 32 lines are displayed which is hard to work with. I would prefer 40-48 reducing the text size. I'm sure I'm using Framebuffer. I tried adding drm-kmod but that didn't change anything.

I am using bourne shell, and I wonder how to color the shell prompt.

Hello all, I have an ASUS server mainboard featuring an ASpeed 2300 VGA chip. I use the machine as a headless-text only machine. X will not be used here. However, sometimes I connect a monitor and a keyboard as well. I have set up the machine with FreeBSD 13.1. The standard vt during booting...

After changing screen resolution to more night (640x480 text -> 1600x1200 graphics), output from btop app (formerly bpytop on-screen real-time monitoring tool) look like mess (see attached screen photos). The same behavior for current btop app and for previous version - bpytop. Only one...

Share your .shrc and/or .kshrc configuration file(s) or samples. .profile can also be used to set common configurations of Bourne and Korn shells. Samples from this file intended for Bourne and Korn can be shared too. There's not as many posts about use of Bourne shells and variant Korn shells...

Colorize your Csh or Bourne shell. Bourne shells include sh, ksh variants (Korn shells), and zsh. csh is a different kind of shell which uses a different syntax for commands. Environment Environment values can be added to your shell configuration file(s). These variables for Bourne shells can...

Hello everyone, Wondering how I can "printf" or "cout" different combinations of colors and fonts using C/C++. Basically want make a real time price list and parameters being displayed to terminal. It would be useless if it did not have some color scheme. Since it's 2022, ANSI color codes is...

I am running the FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64.vhd VM image in VirtualBox (on a non-FreeBSD host). However, the console is small: Is there a way to increase the console's dimensions when using vt in the VHD VirtualBox image distributed by FreeBSD? I have read this thread: Increase VT size on...

On a fresh install of FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64.vhd, I changed the default console driver to sc by adding kern.vty=sc to /boot/loader.conf, followed by a reboot. However, the use of sc results in some garbage characters. For example, the screenshot below shows some garbage characters that...

I want to learn how to set up a nice looking console. My HP elitebook G3 is giving me some weird problems, so if you could help with any pointers to any keywords or documentation it's appreciated, I do not know how to search this. This is what happens: 1. When FreeBSD boots normally via EFI...

As A root I forced to use sh shell and evry time export the EDITOR variable. I've read that I should edit the .profile file in orderd to override the default EDITOR variable, I wonder where I can actully set it as originally it was set somewhere. here is my .profile, but it doesn't work at...

Hi, FreeBSD Gurus! The Fujitsu PRIMERGY server motherboard D2939 have integrated video, exactly Matrox MGA G200e. Local widescreen monitor have max resolution 1680x1058, 60Hz (D-sub) / 75Hz (DVI-D). Due needs to remote management and iRMS (built-in server remote management card) requirements...

Host - Win 10 64x VBox – 6.1.26 Guest - FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64 Tried installing KDE5 using the desktop-installer script. After completing the item X11 test? (y/n)[y] and the Ctrl+F1 transition could not use the console to continue the script, because it took this form: I had to...

What is NO_COLOR? NO_COLOR is a hint to the software running in the terminal to suppress addition of color. More about NO_COLOR at: no-color.org Background: quote #1 from no-color.org quote #2 from no-color.org

Hello! I have been a long-time sysutils/screen user, now trying to switch to sysutils/tmux. In general, I am pleased, but there is a little annoyance I cannot solve: When using less <file> under scren the displayed content remains on the terminal after less exits; with tmux when less exits the...

Dual consoles with SOL works very well in Multi User. In single user, also works reasonably well. The boot process is displayed on both the machine monitor and on the SOL, but the login prompt can only be on one or the other. I can decide which from the /boot/loader.conf, by including...

Some frequent actions on my pc are the following: -Going to a console -Doing directory traversal -Going to a console -Doing directory traversal -Moving & Copying files. Which tools do you use and how ? Example : midnight commander , ranger , nnn , keyboard shortcuts configured in your shell ...

I am trying to modify the colors of the kernel and terminal messages, with the options specified in the VT driver manual. options TERMINAL_NORM_ATTR options TERMINAL_KERN_ATTR With the valid options of sys/terminal.h I compiled a new kernel with the VT options, to no avail. Also with the...

Hello, i use x11/rxvt-unicode as my terminal emulator and it seems like it cannot output the horizontal ellipsis (U+2026). As the terminal font, i use x11-fonts/iosevka, which i load via .Xresources like so: URxvt.font: xft:Iosevka:style=Regular:size=12 URxvt.boldFont...