Re: usable rows in console

[Marco Gerards]

m_m <mm.e3p@email.it> writes:

> M. Gerards <metgerards <at> student.han.nl> writes:
>> If you use a smaller font you will get more lines I think (I'm not sure
>> if this patch is already commited or not...).
>>
> really if now I use a smaller font, I've a smaller screen :)) 

Right.  But you need to change the number of lines in the console
server too, otherwise there is no support for this...

>> Which videocard do you have, btw?
>>
> two:
> intel daytona i740 8 mb ram   
> nvidia geforce2 mx 32 mb ram

It is hard to support highres textmodes on the nvidia...

> mmh, i think that we can edit in the same way on xterm in the GUI as in 
> console
> but, working, the xterms and workspaces give more flexibility and so a windows
> manager is better that the console : the problem is about the security because
> the windowsmanagers run only as root.

Why only as root?  On GNU/Linux I run windowmanagers as a normal user.

> This is the _problem_, IMHO ... i know that for the GNU Hurd developers i'm 
> only
> the standard foolish home-user for free-software platform, and this is true 
> too!

Oh, I would not say that.

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Marco