root@enigma1.UUCP (SysAdmin) (03/24/91)
As good as Minix is, & the fact that it is able to use higher graphics cards [i.e. VGA], I tire of looking at monocrome. Does anyone know how to set the screen colors, or any graphics utils for Minix? [i.e. even GIF viewers for graphical works]. I've mostly been working on customizing the OS, so there may even be a sys util that handles it - I just haven't noted any such yet. Thanks root@enigma1.uucp
wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) (03/24/91)
Gordan Irlams's Virtual Console Patches support colored text, but no bitmapped graphics. If you plan to spend any serious time in Minix, you simply MUST have the Virtual Console Patches anyway. You can have as many consoles as you want, which is as close to job control as Minix will ever have. (ie, you can log in to Minix more than once on separate terminals. It's invaluable when compiling, browsing, editing and using the modem at the same time.) It hardly takes up any extra memory, too. -- "You ask me what I think about war and the death penalty. The latter question is simpler. I am not for punishment at all, but only for the measures that serve society and it's protection." -- Albert Einstein Wayne Hayes INTERNET: wayne@csri.utoronto.ca CompuServe: 72401,3525
mgallagh@uhasun.hartford.edu (Michael Gallagher) (03/25/91)
In article <1991Mar23.232118.29912@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) writes: > Gordan Irlams's Virtual Console Patches support colored text, but no > bitmapped graphics. > Hmmm, sounds good - but where would one get that package - is it commercial? Let's have the full info guy ! -mg