rolled a "real" linux console font.

svn path=/trunk/kdebase/konsole/; revision=11858

README.linux.console

@@ -5,43 +5,47 @@ look as pleasant as the original.
 
 Konsole has lately improved it's support for the linux console.
 Especially using the new session mechanism makes running the
-linux console under X11 being a snap.
+linux console under X11 a snap.
 
 Simple choose "Linux console" from the "New" menu (or click the
 right mouse button while holding down the control key).
 
-To get proper support of graphic characters, you need a VGA font
+To get proper support of graphic characters, you need a linux console
-being installed, too.  If a VGA font is not installed on your system,
+font being installed. Proceed as follows:
-you may like to use the one supplied in the konsole/other directory.
 
-To install the font proceed as follows:
+  cp konsole/other/linux8x16.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
+  mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
 
-  cp konsole/other/vga.pcf.gz /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
+(For some strange reason i had to restart my X server too, to make
-  mkfontdir                   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
+ it aware of the new font. Try "xfd -fn linux8x16" to see if the
+ font is available.)
 
 Depending on the application, you might need to switch to dark
-background, too, for the best results. (Konsole does this
+background, for the best results. (Konsole does this automatically
-automatically for you when you select the linux console as
+for you when you select the linux console as suggested above).
-suggested above).
 
 Please note that those applications may not react properly on
 changing the window size. Often they ignore it completely or
 behave strange in other ways. I even saw one application dying
 from the shock of noticing that the linux console has simply
 changed it's size (Debian's dselect). Since the Linux console
-can definitely be resized (not only when running the popular
+can be resized, this behavior is to be considered a bug of
-frame buffer console), this behavior is to be considered a bug
+these applications, i cannot help it.
-within these applications.
+
-
+Mouse-aware application will most probably not recognize
-Mouse handling in mc is known not to work when run with TERM=linux
+mouse events (especially mc) since they might try to get
-in an xterminal, because of a bug in mc itself. In general, mouse
+these events from gpm instead from the console.
-aware applications might create further trouble because the mouse
+
-is handled differently within the linux console (which uses gpm)
+The linux console can some funny quirks with special graphic
-and X11. As soon as konsole has matured a little more, i'll try
+characters and i haven't yet managed to teach Konsole all of
-to get in contact with the authors of the mouse handling for the
+them. In rare cases, they might display differently. Affected
-linux console and will try to find out if making a copy/paste between
+to my knowlegde are especially non-VT100 extentions taken from
-X11 and gpm is really impossible. The mouse material in the ncurses
+the AT&T 4410v1, these are arrow symbols, a full block and a
-is in need of some upgrade also, basically for the same reasons.
+checker board. Most other tricks that the linux console is
+able to do with character sets are eventually not even used
+in a single instance, so you will hardly be disturbed by 
+konsoles inability to do them. Please accept, that i've just
+started to support the linux console emulation.
 
 
 Anyway, try

other/makefont.c

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/*
+	"VGA8x16", 8, 16, fontdata_8x16,
+
+  makes vga font for X11
+
+  use with font specification from /usr/src/linux/drivers/video/font_8x16.c
+
+  usage: makefont > linux8x16.bdf
+         bdftopcf -o linux8x16.pcf linux8x16.bdf
+         gzip linux8x16.pcf
+*/
+
+main()
+{ int i,j;
+  printf("STARTFONT 2.1\n");
+  printf("COMMENT Linux console font 8x16\n");
+  printf("FONT linux8x16\n");
+  printf("SIZE 8 75 75\n");
+  printf("FONTBOUNDINGBOX 8 16 0 -4\n");
+  printf("STARTPROPERTIES 2\n");
+  printf("FONT_DESCENT 4\n");
+  printf("FONT_ASCENT 12\n");
+  printf("ENDPROPERTIES\n");
+  printf("CHARS 256\n");
+  for (i = 0; i < 256; i++)
+  {
+    printf("STARTCHAR x%02x\n",i);
+    printf("ENCODING %d\n",i);
+    printf("SWIDTH %d %d\n",0,0);
+    printf("DWIDTH %d %d\n",8,0);
+    printf("BBX %d %d %d %d\n",8,16,0,-4);
+    printf("BITMAP\n");
+    for (j = 0; j < 16; j++)
+    {
+      printf("%02x\n",(unsigned char)fontdata_8x16[16*i+j]);
+    }
+    printf("ENDCHAR x%02x\n",i);
+  }
+  printf("ENDFONT\n");
+}

src/TEScreen.C

@@ -718,8 +718,8 @@ void TEScreen::ShowCharacter(unsigned char c)
 
   if (graphic) // handle graphical character set here
   {
-    // if (c == '0') c = ' '; else if (c == 'h') c = ' ';
     if (c >= 0x5f && c <= 0x7e) c = (c == 0x5f) ? 0x7f : c - 0x5f;
+    //FIXME: the linux console knows some non-VT100 chars, too.
   }
   if (pound && c == '#') c = 0xa3; // pound sign
 

src/main.C

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 
 #define WITH_VGA
 
-char *fonts[] = {"6x13", "5x7", "6x10", "7x13", "9x15", "10x20", "vga"};
+char *fonts[] = {"6x13", "5x7", "6x10", "7x13", "9x15", "10x20", "linux8x16"}; //"vga"};
 
 TEDemo::TEDemo(char* args[]) : KTMainWindow()
 {
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ void TEDemo::makeMenu()
   m_font->insertItem( i18n("&Huge"),   5);
 #ifdef WITH_VGA
   m_font->insertSeparator();
-  m_font->insertItem( i18n("&VGA"),    6);
+  m_font->insertItem( i18n("&Linux"),  6);
 #endif
 #ifdef ANY_FONT
   m_font->insertSeparator();

tests/Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+CFLAGS	= -O
+OBJS	= main.o esc.o
+
+vttest:	$(OBJS)
+	cc $(CFLAGS) -o vttest $(OBJS)
+
+install: vttest
+	cp vttest.1 /usr/man/man1/vttest.1
+	cp vttest /usr/local/bin/vttest
+	strip /usr/local/bin/vttest
+
+clean:
+	rm -f $(OBJS) vttest foo core lint tags a.out