From: itz@kronstadt.boxmail.com (Ian Zimmerman)
Subject: vtfontd 1.0.1 - utility (daemon) to save & restore console fonts
Date: Tue,  7 Apr 1998 12:07:13 GMT

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Hello, I posted this a few weeks ago but it never seemed to make it
into the group (maybe because of cross-posting).  Which is just as well
because it gave me the opportunity to fix a bug or two.

Here's the README file:

vtfontd takes the specified virtual terminal(s) (VTs) into "process
mode", obtaining notification through a signal of all VT switches that
involve the controlled VTs.  It then saves the console font in effect
while switching away from a particular VT, and restores it while
switching back to that VT.

This is most useful when running X Windows on machines where graphics
mode operation can corrupt the console font pages.  Yes, it is a
software solution to a hardware problem.  So what?  An affordable
hardware solution does not exist.  However, vtfontd is more than that;
in effect, it "virtualizes" the console font, making it local to each
VT, rather than shared by all the VTs on the console.


You can download this from

ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/itz/vtfontd-1.0.1.tar.gz

Enjoy,

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Ian T Zimmerman                        <itz@rahul.net>
I came to the conclusion that what was wrong about the guillotine
was that the condemned man had no chance at all, absolutely none.
Albert Camus, _The Outsider_



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