Re: Setting fonts on a per-VC basis

[Petr V. <VAN...@vc...>]

On 27 Aug 02 at 12:07, James Simmons wrote:
> > Is this going to be possible in the new kernel console code? Is there a
> > list of new API changes/capabilities for the new linuxconsole yet?
> 
> Yes it will be possible. You will also be able to resize the resolution
> per vc. I don't have a list of API changes yet. The userland interface is
> pretty much the same. The difference is the number of consoles per

Userland interface must be same. Current userland interface already allows
for all mentioned here, so there is no need to invent new one.

> desktop. We will have 16 instead of 64. The second change which I don't

I'm already using 25 virtual terminals on one head (*). 64 is low, but
16 is unusable. I could imagine changing code to allow for unlimited
number of virtual terminals per one desktop, but going down to 16?
                                                    Petr Vandrovec
                                                    van...@vc...
                                                    
(*) ctrl-leftalt-f1..f12, ctrl-rightalt-f1..f12, plus alt-leftarrow
from VT1 to reach fullscreen VMware... Some of VT's display progress
of different processes (teletext grabber, rc5des, syslog, ...),
and rest of them I use for real work. I already ran out of 24 VTs
few times in the past, but it never bothered me enough to learn kernel
about windows-f1..f12 being vt25..36.