[plug] ls in colour & terminal size

[Craig Ringer]

> Details are in 'man X'
or you can be lazy with most window managers and set them up to remember 
your usual terminal size.

If that's not an option, most apps accept an arg like "-geometry 120x60" 
(for a 120x60 col term) though syntax may vary app2app like
	--geometry=COLSxROWS
	-g COLSxROWS
	-geometry=COLSxROWS
	--geometry COLSxROWS
et etc, see app's -help/-h/--help/-help (*sigh*) for details and/or "man 
app"

As for framebuffer, VESAfb is easy to set up but many (most?) cards have 
buggy VESA support (because windows doesn't have VESA drivers you see 
*sigh* only VGA and vendor) so you may or may not find it OK, and it can 
sometimes confuse or be confused by an Xserver. Of course some of the 
vendor-specific fb modules are worse.

If you use a custom kernel, just compile in the appropriate fb options 
under the console config, and for vesafb read the docs in 
kernelsrc/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt for setup info, it isn't hard.

With frame buffer support your virtual consoles can be run at acceptable 
resolutions too. Especially important if you have a 19" monitor (mine 
draws 640x480 console with each row of pixels separated by 1/2mm or so - 
very annoying).

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Craig Ringer
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