Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:06:00 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking |
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Charles Lepple wrote:
> Richard B. Johnson said: > <snip> > > It is impossible to send escape sequences to an input that does > > not exist. That's why I need to know how to stop the kernel's > > insistence on turning off the screen. > > from 'strace setterm -blank 0': > > write(1, "\33[9;0]", 6) = 6 > > which means you want to write the escape sequence to standard output (fd > 1), or /dev/tty0 if your code is not attached to the current console. This > should be independent of any input devices that may or may not be there. > > -- > Charles Lepple <ghz.cc!clepple> > http://www.ghz.cc/charles/
Yes. This is f*ing absurb. A default that kills the screen and the requirement to send some @!_$%!@$ sequences to turn it off. This is absolute crap, absolutely positively, with no possible justification whatsoever. If I made an ioctl, it will probably be rejected.........
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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