{"id":84,"date":"2009-09-13T12:55:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T11:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/Blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2011-03-15T13:55:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T12:55:58","slug":"unix-console-tips-configs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/unix-console-tips-configs\/","title":{"rendered":"Unix Console & X11 Tips & Configs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Initially, I started with the premise to change my Console\/Terminals to UTF-8. However, as it turned out, they behave rather weird, some things don’t work right, characters are sometimes not visible, they tend to make a mess in displaying special chars (as used in mc), some control-commands don’t work anymore and so on. My light-weight-terminal aterm does not support UTF8 (but JIS and whatnot, what the heck?) So I postponed this to some later date, when there’s at least a fixed mlterm available. <\/p>\n

However, there are some interesting things to mention, in regard to the console: <\/p>\n

mc clogs up the history<\/strong>
\nIf Midnight Commander writes funny things like cd \"`printf \"%b\" '\\0057'`\"<\/code> into the shell-history, then HISTIGNORE is not set, or does not contain a space.<\/p>\n

export HISTIGNORE=\"&:[ ]*:exit\"<\/code><\/p>\n

Umlauts appear as ? when doing an ls<\/strong>
\nThis is due to the really relevant variable regarding the charset: LC_CTYPE. Set it to something other than “C”:<\/p>\n

export LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-1<\/code><\/p>\n

English system in Switzerland<\/strong>
\nIf you want the system in english (and not necessarily the data), but are otherwise not english speaking, and sure as hell do not want screwed-up data formats or medieval measurement units, you want to set up your locales like this: <\/p>\n

export CHARSET=ISO-8859-1
\nexport LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1
\nexport LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-1
\nexport LC_MESSAGE=en_GB.ISO-8859-1
\nexport LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.ISO-8859-1
\nexport LC_NUMERIC=de_CH.ISO-8859-1
\nexport LC_TIME=de_CH.ISO-8859-1
\nexport LC_COLLATE=de_CH.ISO-8859-1
\nexport LC_MONETARY=de_CH.ISO-8859-1
\nexport LC_NAME=de_CH.ISO-8859-1
\nexport LC_ADDRESS=de_CH.ISO-8859-1
\nexport LC_TELEPHONE=de_CH.ISO-8859-1
\nexport LC_MEASUREMENT=de_CH.ISO-8859-1
\nexport LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_CH.ISO-8859-1
\nexport LANGUAGE=en_GB<\/code><\/p>\n

Setting LC_PAPER can lead to problems with things you do not send to a printer (pdf-generation for instance), and setting LC_ALL makes it impossible to use different locales for different uses. <\/p>\n

Of course, you can replace ISO-8859-15 with UTF-8 if you like. <\/p>\n

make mlterm look decent<\/strong>
\nThese are the contents of .mlterm\/main<\/code>: <\/p>\n

only_use_unicode_font=yes
\nscrollbar_mode = right
\nscrollbar_view_name = next
\nfontsize = 16
\nENCODING = UTF-8
\nfg_color = white
\nbg_color = black
\nuse_transbg = true
\nbrightness = 60
\nfade_ratio = 75
\ngeometry = 80x25
\nuse_anti_alias = true
\nlogsize = 4096
\nword_separators = \" ,;=:\"<\/code><\/p>\n

Well, yes, it now looks quite NeXTy ;). <\/p>\n

A better cursor<\/strong>
\nNot really console-related, but anyway: Get an Icon-theme like Shere Khan X<\/a> (why, it looks like the one from NeXT of course), and put the unpacked directory into ~\/.icons\/ Now change your .Xresources to read: <\/p>\n

Xcursor.theme: Shere_Khan_X<\/code><\/p>\n

Screenlock with DPMS<\/strong>
\nFor some machines, xlock is seemingly unable to do DPMS. Don’t fret: <\/p>\n

xset dpms force off && xlock -mode blank -resetsaver<\/code><\/p>\n

See Also<\/strong>
\nAn earlier post in Blog: Useful Shell Oneliners<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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