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Many character oriented applications were written with the linux
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console as the platform in mind, and although many of them do well
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when run in xterm emulation (which is konsole's default), don't
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look as pleasant as the original.
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Konsole has lately improved it's support for the linux console.
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Especially using the new session mechanism makes running the
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linux console under X11 being a snap.
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Simple choose "Linux console" from the "New" menu (or click the
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right mouse button while holding down the control key).
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To get proper support of graphic characters, you need a VGA font
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being installed, too. If a VGA font is not installed on your system,
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you may like to use the one supplied in the konsole/other directory.
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To install the font proceed as follows:
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cp konsole/other/vga.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
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mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
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Depending on the application, you might need to switch to dark
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background, too, for the best results. (Konsole does this
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automatically for you when you select the linux console as
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suggested above).
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Please note that those applications may not react properly on
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changing the window size. Often they ignore it completely or
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behave strange in other ways. I even saw one application dying
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from the shock of noticing that the linux console has simply
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changed it's size (Debian's dselect). Since the Linux console
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can definitely be resized (not only when running the popular
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frame buffer console), this behavior is to be considered a bug
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within these applications.
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Mouse handling in mc is known not to work when run with TERM=linux
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in an xterminal, because of a bug in mc itself. In general, mouse
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aware applications might create further trouble because the mouse
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is handled differently within the linux console (which uses gpm)
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and X11. As soon as konsole has matured a little more, i'll try
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to get in contact with the authors of the mouse handling for the
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linux console and will try to find out if making a copy/paste between
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X11 and gpm is really impossible. The mouse material in the ncurses
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is in need of some upgrade also, basically for the same reasons.
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Anyway, try
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cd /usr/src/linux
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make menuconfig
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for a pleasing view.
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