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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 most of them do
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well when run in xterm emulation (which is konsole's default),
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they don't 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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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 Linux console
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font being installed. Proceed as follows:
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| cp konsole/other/linux*.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
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| mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
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| xset fp rehash
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Depending on the application, you might need to switch to dark
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background, for the best results. (Konsole does this automatically
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for you when you select the linux console as 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 be resized, this behavior is to be considered a bug of
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these applications, i cannot help it.
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Mouse-aware application will most probably not recognize
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mouse events (especially mc) since they might try to get
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these events from gpm instead from the console.
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The linux console can some funny quirks with special graphic
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characters and i haven't yet managed to teach Konsole all of
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them. In rare cases, they might display differently. Affected
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to my knowledge are especially non-VT100 extensions taken from
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the AT&T 4410v1, these are arrow symbols, a full block and a
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checker board. Most other tricks that the linux console is
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able to do with character sets are eventually not even used
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in a single instance, so you will hardly be disturbed by
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konsole's inability to do them.
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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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I found lately, that konsole does pretty well when running
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dosemu, too: Fire up the linux console emulation as above,
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set the size to 80x25 (ibmpc) and start "dos".
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