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I have never had a problem running dvtm on FreeBSD ... it just works. However, newer versions of FreeBSD (10.x and 11.x) and current versions of dvtm (0.15) will not work together at all ... My environment before dvtm looks like this: TERM=xterm-256color SHELL=/bin/csh When I start dvtm with...

I like the way how tcsh works, but it is outdated a little bit (only 1 update since 2012), also some nice features are available in zsh, like suggesting flags and other completions for cli and not only cli apps… But some of its features are distracting and annoying IMHO. I didn't find any...

Hi, This is a problem I am experiencing since I started using x11/rxvt-unicode in Gentoo/Linux, and I still experience it in FreeBSD, unfortunately. Randomly, but very often, the prompt get very MESSED. The example in the picture is not the worse it can get. It seem to just happen when the...

So I came accross the 20501 and found the example to have escapes with color codes. I'm curious, I could not get the motd to have colores, even using different escape sequences (i.g. 033) – so in which environment does login print the motd? I was guessing it would be in the users context and...

This is probably a noob question, but I have wondered for some time the difference between TTY and terminal like rxvt-unicode or Xterm (and less shell). Is TTY just a virtual device which runs terminal emulator like rxvt-unicode which runs shell like sh or bash? If I have a freshly installed...

Hello, my problem is related with scrollbuffer size in my csh. I have figured out that i must use sc instead of vt, and already done it. Also I can increase my scrollback size using vidcontrol -h <number> command. The current problem is that I can't save this result after rebooting. Another...

Hi all, I'm seeing a problem when I run some "terminal" application on my GUI (OpenBox), I've tried xterm and Konsole, both don't load the .profile file so I don't have available some alias or environment things.. Anyway, It's loaded properly if I run a terminal like Ctrl+Alt+F[x] Do yo have...

I can't seem to get my intended prompt whenever my shell is sh: PS1="^[[1;31m`pwd` #^[[0m " gives [1;31m/root #[0m and behaves like this: [1;31m/root #[0m cd /usr [1;31m/root #[0m pwd /usr [1;31m/root #[0m _ I am truly baffled. Even csh is more predictable on something similar. Especially...

Hello, I'm trying to change the console resolution to anything different from the default "640x400" and i have some problems. When i run vidcontrol -i mode i got 511 different modes, all with the same resolution 671404428x671404428 but i cannot change to any of that. Running vidcontrol -i...

Hi! I am a GNOME 3 user but I use console too and I boot in console which resolution is I think 640x480x16 vt_vga (default) and it is good for me. The "problem" is because in GNOME I have 2560x1440 and when I switch back to console it stay Xorg resolution. I did try to change size of font...

Well, I'm pressing the TAB key and nothing happens :p set -o also doesn't give anything relative to tab completion. Does sh have tab completion or not? And if yes, how do I enable it? (I know that tcsh has tab completion. It's working fine.)

I want to use the classic bourne shell (/bin/sh) but it doesn't read the /root/.shrc file. I have set a different default EDITOR, PS1, LSCOLORS, but none of those are read (also indicated by set). I have managed set the classic shell for the normal user of the system and the ~/.shrc file is...

Greetings: Running FreeBSD 10.2 base install. My resolution is changing correctly once I hit the user login prompt by setting vesa_load and allscreens_flags accordingly. However, I haven't found a way to change the resolution for the kernel boot text (before the login prompt). Is there a...

Hi folks. Just wondering how I change the display font size on the command line. It's way too huge. I've tried some of the solutions I have found online and it hasn't been clear enough for me to get anywhere. My limited experience in FreeBSD tells me it's simple, but I just can't find it...

Hello, When I set the command prompt for my root user, I edit the .cshrc file and add set prompt = "%B%n%b@%B%m%b %B%~%b%# " For my admin user, I need to edit the .shrc but I cannot find a way get the prompt as I want it... Could anyone please help me convert my command to work in .shrc...

Hi all, I've recently re-installed FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64) on my Acer laptop. It has an Intel chipset. So I can switch between Xorg and the terminal, I have used: kern.vty=vt hw.vga.textmode=1 kern.vt.fb.default_mode="1280x800" in /boot/loader.conf. This provides me with a console that I can...

Hi, It's my first post on this forum and… I've got a problem. I want to set higher resolution in text console and I think, I set it properly, but system restarts hard after log in into graphical environment (Xfce-4.10). Info about my FreeBSD 10: FreeBSD maszynka 10.0-STABLE FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE...

I've read the manual and used search engines but haven't been able to find a solution. All I want to do is change the user prompt from a % to a $. When I set it via PROMPTCHARS="$#" all I get is a 0. I even tried single quotes and using "%{$%}". There aren't any prompt settings in the other...

Something simple and nice that I want to share with you. Create .bashrc on home directory and copy this: if [[ $- != *i* ]] ; then # Shell is non-interactive. Be done now! return fi # Bash won't get SIGWINCH if another process is in the foreground. # Enable checkwinsize so that bash will...

export $PATH=PATH:/path/to/variable When doing the above in /$USER_HOME/.profile, the changes are not immediate nor do other open terminals show the change when echo $PATH && cat .profile|grep PATH is invoked. # $FreeBSD: stable/10/share/skel/dot.profile 199243 2009-11-13 05:54:55Z ed $ # #...