Re: console plans

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:42:18PM +0100, Niklas Höglund wrote:
> I think there is a program for the Linux console that does this. I
> remember seing this a while ago. I did a quick search in apt-cache,
> and found dynafont. I'm not sure if this is the program I remember,
> though. I couldn't find a lot of documentation.

Yes, it seems to be something like that.  Thanks for the hint.
 
> > I think this'd be cool, but the failure (when there's more than 256
> > characters displayed) would be just too wierd.
> 
> You'd have to show that box that indicates a glyph isn't available for
> those characters that aren't.

Indeed.  I don't think that it is too weird or a problem.

By the way, if you limit it to 8 foreground colors, you can use up to 512
characters simultaneously.
 
> The best solution is probably to use a graphical mode.

Then you can better use X, though :)  I was considering a framebuffer, but
it oocured to me that with all the features I desire, a framebuffer would
just be like an X server with a terminal in the root window :)

Framebuffer might come eventually (certainly for platforms without a native
text mode), but it is not an option for me right now.

Thanks,
Marcus

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