Questions tagged [text-mode]
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Turn off monitor (energy saving) while in text console mode (in Linux)
How to configure Linux text console to automatically turn of the monitor after some time?
And by "text console" I mean that thing that you get on ctrl+alt+F[1-6], which is what you get whenever X11 is not running. And, no, I'm not using any…
Denilson Sá Maia
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How can MS-DOS and other text mode programs display double-width CJK characters?
I've seen many text mode BIOS setup screens in Japanese and Chinese. Recently I've even seen Windows XP setup in Japanese. MS-DOS had Japanese versions too. Real DOS mode, not Windows command prompt!
Typically a text mode screen has the size of…
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How to boot into text mode in Linux Mint LMDE (Debian-based)
Ok, this might sound ridiculous, but of all the issues I could have, I'm scratching my head over booting into text mode. Normally I'm in the opposite direction, such as startx not working.
To put the wtf-level of this into perspective, I just…
Camilo Martin
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Command prompt uses 4x6 font for non-1 sessions, 8x12 unavailable
I have a proble with Windows 8. If the current user session isn’t the first session started after a cold boot (basically meaning a restart in Windows 8), the console windows use very tiny 4x6 terminal font, and the 8x12 font is unavailable. I had…
kinokijuf
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How can i scroll up in text mode of linux
is it there any way to scroll up and view the contents of text mode?I was trying to view all the files listed as part of my directory
I can scrollup and view the output of text mode,any way to scroll up and view the output?
BlueBerry - Vignesh4303
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How to set more lines to scroll backwards, in text mode?
I want to scroll back 10000+ lines in text mode linux terminal. As there is an unlimit option in gnome-terminal, so I guess if this is also possible in text mode?
Lenik
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Program besides cmd.exe that can switch to text mode?
I would like to test on my Windows 7 x64 system if text mode works via this 'workaround' of disabling my video card driver.
However, cmd.exe on x64 has removed support for Alt+Enter or right-click+"Full screen". This should not mean that the OS…
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How do I change the output monitor for a text console in Linux / Ubuntu 12.10?
I'm working with an nVidia card and multiple monitors, and the monitor that is used by default for text mode is in portrait mode, forcing me to crane my head to the side to use it when I switch to a console. How can I switch the default text mode…
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How to add more TTYs under UBUNTU 18.04?
In fact I have 2 questions>
to get the TTYs for all F1..F12 keys. But how? Also they have to be with a text mode, not VGA. or atleast it should be switchable on the fly!
The default font is very tiny and I could not even set to a proper text…
alex
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How to boot Slax into text mode
Older versions of Slax had a boot choice of a text menu.
I want to use it because it is much faster to boot and i only need few commands to start some backups over the network or work with files.
Single user mode is not enough, i want to use…
Sidias-Korrado
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CentOS color and tty size issue
I recently got a new text only CRT (I get it, its retro, I like it). I run minimal, tty only, CentOS 7. I need to disable all color system wide (monitor only does green, so I cant see some stuff). Any help?
Also, the text is like one or two lines…
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How do I prompt for booting Debian in GNOME or text mode?
Sometimes I would like to boot my laptop running Debian with GNOME 3 normally, however sometimes I would like to boot into text mode without having to manually stop the gdm3 service. Currently, I have to either manually stop gdm3 when the computer…
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Text mode console output shows a blank screen
I've started using a Technika LCD TV with my PC and, while it displays full OS graphics, the text that is usually displayed during boot up (with the exception of the initial BIOS screen) does not show - the screen goes blank. I can sometimes see…
authentictech
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Fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 boots only in text mode
I have a HP pavilion 15z with Windows 8. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it (graphical intallation) and when I rebooted it at the end, it only goes into text mode. When trying startx it shows a "fatal server error: No screen found".
When trying to use…
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Text-mode emulation on 64-bit Windows
In 64-bit Windows, it is no longer possible to enter hardware textmode in the terminal by hitting Alt+Enter. Is there a terminal/console software that supports emulation of VGA text modes?
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