From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 22 1:15: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4495237B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:15:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from web11202.mail.yahoo.com (web11202.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED5DB43E88 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:15:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roti_343@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20021122091503.89000.qmail@web11202.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [141.85.0.72] by web11202.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:15:03 PST Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 01:15:03 -0800 (PST) From: Rotaru Razvan Subject: terminal incompatibility To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry for the inconvinence, i accidently pushed "send" before finishing the mail, so here is the complete message: Hello, Well this is just another mail about a problem i think a lot of people have. As i noticed by default terminals in bsd are named cons25. My problem? no compatibility with linux terminals (or with xterm). First of all some console applications behave different in cons25 and xterm (for instance sysinstall: is colorful and nice in cons25, b&w and totally messed up un xterm). Vim has problems with the keyboard (doesn't recognize "up arrow" ,"down arrow" ...). Midnight Commander is b&w in cons25. So you see a lot of problems with these terminals. Generally I think they arise because most of applications where not designed for bsd terminals. I figured out a solution may be to make all terminals linux-type (assuming that I use most of the time, linux-terminal applications. So I edited /etc/ttys and changed "cons25" to "linux". And this is the point where everithing stops working. Well Midnight Commander is colorful but messed up. Not even ee works anymore. Maybe some of you guy can give me a hand on this, how to make all linux-terminal applications work with bsd. Second question: Is it necessary to have linux compatibility installed, in order to have java(jdk13) in bsd? What does this compatbility mean? doesn't it affect memory usage and speed of the system? to tell you frankly i don't like the sound of it. Thanks anyway, Razvan __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus – Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message