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satimis

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Registered: 2007-03-03

Posts: 186

How to adjust terminal/console frame width

Hi folks,

Archlinux 86-64 2007-08-2

I have 20" wide LCD screen.  How to adjust the window frame size of terminal/console allowing typing to its end rather than after typing a few words the cursor jumps to the beginning overtyping the same line?  TIA

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jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: How to adjust terminal/console frame width

huh? maybe a picture would be better. U can post them to imageshack or your own server and then up them here. Please do not post full size pic's though, use thumbnail.

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: How to adjust terminal/console frame width

I'm going to take a guess here, based on what you wrote.. I think what you are describing might be either a problem with your video card/framebuffer driver, or, you may have modified your PS1 prompt incorrectly.
Did you modify your PS1?

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satimis

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Registered: 2007-03-03

Posts: 186

Re: How to adjust terminal/console frame width

I'm going to take a guess here, based on what you wrote.. I think what you are describing might be either a problem with your video card/framebuffer driver, or, you may have modified your PS1 prompt incorrectly.
Did you modify your PS1?

Hi,

Yes, PS1 is what I need.  Previously I searched on wrong terms.

After commenting out "PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ ' " I added follows;

BLUE=`tput setf 1`
GREEN=`tput setf 2`
CYAN=`tput setf 3`
RED=`tput setf 4`
MAGENTA=`tput setf 5`
YELLOW=`tput setf 6`
WHITE=`tput setf 7`
PS1='\[$GREEN\]\u@\h \[$BLUE\]\w/\[$GREEN\] \$\[$WHITE\] '

That is what I need to display on terminal/console. 

However I still can't manage to have "black" fore-ground (black characters on typing).  I played around on following variation without result.

BLUE=`tput setf 1`
GREEN=`tput setf 2`
CYAN=`tput setf 3`
RED=`tput setf 4`
MAGENTA=`tput setf 5`
YELLOW=`tput setf 6`
WHITE=`tput setf 7`
BLACK=`tput setf 8`
PS1='\[$GREEN\]\u@\h \[$BLUE\]\w/\[$GREEN\] \$\[$BLACK\] '

BLACK=`tput setf 1`
GREEN=`tput setf 2`
CYAN=`tput setf 3`
RED=`tput setf 4`
MAGENTA=`tput setf 5`
YELLOW=`tput setf 6`
WHITE=`tput setf 7`
PS1='\[$GREEN\]\u@\h \[$BLUE\]\w/\[$GREEN\] \$\[$BLACK\] '

Advice would be appreciated.  TIA

Besides how to change the colour on "nano"?  The characters are difficult to read on typing.  I need black characters on white background

satimis