Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] another feature

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

> Another desirable feature to add to the web page is per VC keymaps.  i 
> remember chaning my keymap for dosemu, and screwing over some of my other 
> apps on other VC's because of it.

I though about that. The question is should this be per keyboard or per
VC. I really need to look at the solaris driver for /dev/kbd. I think they
handle it per keyboard. Any suggestions on what level to handle keymaps!!
Maybe both like fbdev handles video modes. Each VT has a private keymap.
Where if you set the keymap by /dev/kbd it would set the keymap for all
keyboards. What does everything think of this idea ?

> add to this section of web page:
> 3.Desirable features such as multi-head operation, scrollback, and support 
> for different fonts & textmodes per VC have not yet been implemented. 

I believe with fbcon you can have different fonts per VC. Same with
textmodes. Well in theory fbcon can handle text modes. Its just no one
has yet. What I like to see is VT_RESIZE fixed. Right now it sets all the
VTs to a new mode. It should only set the mode for the current active VT.
Fbdev should be used to set the mode for all consoles. This is done by
opening /dev/fb and setting to new mode. It will have a flag to tell fbdev
to preserve the mode after you call close on /dev/fb. This in effect will
cause all VTs to change their mode.

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