[BRLTTY] Number of lines and characters in the terminal

[Joakim Nordell]

Hello and thanks for the answers.

I am running Ubuntu in two diferent versions, 10 and 12 beta.
I think it is convenient to have a setup with abit more than 80x25
during development, source browsing, code comparing and so on.
I will try the answer and see if I can get it working. We are not
allowed to run admin commands or to access /etc files at work, so I
have to ask for some admins to do this.

Regards
Joakim Nordell


On 14/04/2012, Mario Lang <mlang at delysid.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> From reading your paragraph above, I am not sure if you want to enable
> long-lines, or get back to 80 columns.  In any case, it would help if we
> knew which distribution you are running.  Debin at least lets you
> configure these aspects of your console through the file
> /etc/default/console-setup.  For instance, my desktop at work contains
> the following settings:
> ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
> CHARMAP="UTF-8"
> CODESET="Lat15"
> FONTFACE="Terminus"
> FONTSIZE="12x24"
> FONT="Lat15-Terminus28x14.psf.gz brl-28x14.psf"
> SCREEN_WIDTH="88"
>
> My framebuffer terminal has 1280x1024 pixels (you can find this out with
> the command fbset).  My fonts are 14 pixels wide.  1280/14 is roughly 91
> characters per line.  Since my braille display is exactly 88 columns
> long (a Handy Tech Modular Evolution 88) I additionally set SCREEN_WIDTH
> to 88 (which results in the stty call mentioned by Samuel being executed
> for me during console setup).
>
> Hope this helps.
> --
> CYa,
>   ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕
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