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Decapsuleur

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Registered: 2008-06-30

Posts: 14

Outputting a terminal to an external screen via HDMI

Hi everyone !

I am absolutely new to Arch Linux and looking forward to installing it on my main PC which is an Asus G1S laptop.

Specs and Wiki:
http://asusg1s.wikidot.com/arch-linux

The existing Wiki, though extremely helpful, doesn't cover the HDMI output functionality.

Since I plan on staying without a GUI for some time in Arch, being able to use my external monitor while inside a teminal would be greatly appreciated.

Being a former Ubuntu user, I had worked around this problem by using the Gnome-terminal after some tinkering in nvidia-settings. Also, while the external monitor did work in Gnome, it lost the signal as soon as I switched to a "real" terminal session (that is, by using Ctrl-F1,F2,F3...). At that moment, the output fell back to the laptop's panel.

Long story short, I would like to know how one can redirect the terminal's output to an external screen and if HDMI is out of question.

I have absolutely no idea how such a thing could be feasible and in fact always wondered if it was possible at all.

Thanks a lot for your time