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Detecting intervals of inactivity in the tty? (to simulate setterm --blank in fbterm)

setterm --blank n allows me to configure the virtual terminal to automatically shut the display off after n minutes of inactivity. Unfortunately, I spend all my time in fbterm, where setterm does not ...
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Switching between two framebuffer programs

I have two programs (mplayer and a custom java application) which both present GUI using framebuffers. They run in separate processes. I want to be able to switch from one program to the other without ...
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Disable framebuffer in QEMU guests

The QEMU options -display curses and -nographic -device sga (the serial graphics adapter) are very convenient for running QEMU outside of a graphical environment. (think: remote ssh connection, ...
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Solarized colorscheme in fbterm?

I have fbterm installed and I'm attempting to use it with the solarized color scheme. I have not been able to find any information about this. The colors are already added to my .Xresources and ...
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What is the kernel frame buffer?

I was reading the "mplayer" man pages trying to play video using just the console, (I don't have or don't want to install X11). It mentions that I can use the kernel frame buffer device which is ...
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Can I enable framebuffer support in xterm [closed]

Can I enable framebuffer support in xterm? If yes, how can I do it? If no, what terminal emulator have a framebuffer support?
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Framebuffer on OpenBSD?

I am migrating from Linux to OpenBSD, and one of the things I miss from my old OS is how even the consoles looked nice (so nice you could actually watch movies in there) under framebuffer using a ...
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Kernel Mode Setting vs. Framebuffer?

With KMS, the graphics drivers are moved into the kernel. Since the framebuffer was already in the kernel, I wouldn't expect this to affect framebuffer operation. Yet, I read that KMS supercedes the ...
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