https://wiki.nwl.cc/ 2026-05-27T19:01:01+00:00 https://wiki.nwl.cc/ https://wiki.nwl.cc/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2023-03-21T16:56:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.nwl.cc/system/console/256colors?rev=1679417783&do=diff 256 Colors Once upon a time, having a colored terminal displaying whole eight different colors was subject to the geeks amongst all the terminal users. Nowadays, this is nothing special anymore. Consequently, one has to go further: 256 colours! rxvt-unicode text/html 2008-12-30T13:51:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.nwl.cc/system/console/console_beeps?rev=1230645119&do=diff Console Beeps Hardly anything is as annoying as an audible console. So here is how to disable it: Console setterm -blength 0 Xorg xset -b b 0 text/html 2008-01-16T19:36:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.nwl.cc/system/console/login?rev=1200512218&do=diff Login Issue-File This file is located inside /etc with name issue. It's content is being taken as output of many getty-implementations right before the actual login-prompt. Original: This is \n.\O (\s \m \r) \t Gentoo Advanced: ^[[0;35;40m . ^[[0;35;40m .vir. d$b ^[[0;35;40m .d$$$$$$b. .cd$$b. .d$$b. d$$$$$$$$$$$b .d$$b. .d$$b. ^[[0;35;40m $$$$( )$$$b d$$$()$$$. d$$$$$$$b Q$$$$$$$P$$$P.$$$$$$$b. … text/html 2007-05-17T16:22:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.nwl.cc/system/console/rxvt-unicode?rev=1179418958&do=diff rxvt-unicode This is a clone of rxvt, containing unicode support. As of it's rich features, it's my preferred choice when it comes to having a unicode-aware X terminal. Configuration Configuration can be done both via commandline parameters and X resources. As the former is trivial, this section describes the latter only. text/html 2023-01-24T12:54:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.nwl.cc/system/console/stty?rev=1674564889&do=diff stty stty gives control over the terminal settings. To view the running settings, use: stty -a Custimization Defining Control Sequences The syntax is: stty <Signal> <Sequence> * Signal is one of the predefined ones, see stty(1). * Sequence maybe anything possible, but a good choice is defining an Escape Sequence (starting with text/html 2008-01-16T19:50:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.nwl.cc/system/console/xmodmap?rev=1200513049&do=diff XmodMap All the funny things you can do using the xmodmap command. Mapping Umlauts Though I'm german, I prefer US-layout for my keyboards. This is mainly for two reasons: * intensive use of Alt_R leads to worn out joints of my right hand's thumb