Graphical Terminal Environment

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On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:31:49 +0100
Björn Oelke wrote:

> Am 06.03.2012 um 06:48 schrieb Brandon Falk:
> > I havent tried tmux yet, but on my system im only able to get 80x40
> > with vidcontrol on one monitor. But with xterm in xorg i can get
> > 319x89 per monitor. Until i get about half of that, i wont be
> > convinced to use something existing. Anyways, I'm off to sleep.
> 
> 
> Have you tried VESA's SC_PIXEL_MODE? It's a kernel option and IIRC it
> works on amd64 since 8.1. `vidcontrol MODE_282` gave me 1280x1024
> pixels. But to be honest, this was about two years ago.

Since I did this recently, you need to build with 

options VESA
options SC_PIXEL_MODE

Then run vidcontrol -i mode to get a list of modes. Choose one and
then run vidcontrol with something like:

-g 160x64 MODE_283

where 160x64 comes from dividing the mode's font size into its
resolution. You can make that automatic by adding

allscreens_flags="-h 2000 -g 160x64 MODE_283"

to rc.conf

BTW does anyone know what the character at the end of the size field is
in the "vidcontrol -i mode" output, I'm seeing "D","P" or "4" on the
graphics modes.