[BRLTTY] Number of lines and characters in the terminal

Mario Lang mlang at delysid.org
Sat Apr 14 07:46:45 EDT 2012


Joakim Nordell <joakim.nordell at gmail.com> writes:

> I am running brltty on some computers at work. For some reason the
> terminal settings is very different on these computers.

Yes, that is a phenomenon that we all see since a few years.
Its mostly related to distributions enabling framebuffer drivers by default.

> On one computer I have the old style terminal with 25 * 80 lines and
> characters. On the other one I have got a setup with at least 60 lines
> per screen and I guess abit over 200 characters per row.
> I find the latter one very convenient and I wonder how to get it on
> the other computer to. Is it something that brltty can change / affect
> with a specific settings or is this something that Linux controls?

It is outside of brltty's abilities to control, something that is in the
domain of your kernel/distribution.



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