Questions tagged [text-mode]
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keystroke to return to lost X session
While at my console I accidentally hit Ctrl+Alt+F2, which replaced my screens with a text-mode login prompt, as it should. From that shell, I see that /usr/bin/X and my previous shells and processes ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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How do I set or change the video refresh rate at boot time and at the linux terminal?
I am trying to increase performance of an old computer which can handle 1080p 60Hz just barely with OpenGL acceleration on. Since not all video players (i.e. Web video) are equal to the local ...
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Text mode at startup + startx?
I'm trying to boot my Trisquel GNU/Linux distro directly from text mode, as I don't want to load the GUI if it's not necessary. I would like to work in tty1 until I type startx, which would start all ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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+"...
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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!
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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