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- Fix document title; - use quote blocks where needed; - use monotonic fonts for config options and file names; - adjust whitespaces and blank lines; - add it to the user's book. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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Software cursor for VGA by Pavel Machek <pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> | ||
======================= and Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> | ||
Software cursor for VGA | ||
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Linux now has some ability to manipulate cursor appearance. Normally, you | ||
by Pavel Machek <pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> | ||
and Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> | ||
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Linux now has some ability to manipulate cursor appearance. Normally, you | ||
can set the size of hardware cursor (and also work around some ugly bugs in | ||
those miserable Trident cards--see #define TRIDENT_GLITCH in drivers/video/ | ||
vgacon.c). You can now play a few new tricks: you can make your cursor look | ||
those miserable Trident cards [#f1]_. You can now play a few new tricks: | ||
you can make your cursor look | ||
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like a non-blinking red block, make it inverse background of the character it's | ||
over or to highlight that character and still choose whether the original | ||
hardware cursor should remain visible or not. There may be other things I have | ||
never thought of. | ||
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The cursor appearance is controlled by a "<ESC>[?1;2;3c" escape sequence | ||
The cursor appearance is controlled by a ``<ESC>[?1;2;3c`` escape sequence | ||
where 1, 2 and 3 are parameters described below. If you omit any of them, | ||
they will default to zeroes. | ||
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Parameter 1 specifies cursor size (0=default, 1=invisible, 2=underline, ..., | ||
8=full block) + 16 if you want the software cursor to be applied + 32 if you | ||
want to always change the background color + 64 if you dislike having the | ||
background the same as the foreground. Highlights are ignored for the last two | ||
flags. | ||
first Parameter | ||
specifies cursor size:: | ||
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0=default | ||
1=invisible | ||
2=underline, | ||
... | ||
8=full block | ||
+ 16 if you want the software cursor to be applied | ||
+ 32 if you want to always change the background color | ||
+ 64 if you dislike having the background the same as the | ||
foreground. | ||
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Highlights are ignored for the last two flags. | ||
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second parameter | ||
selects character attribute bits you want to change | ||
(by simply XORing them with the value of this parameter). On standard | ||
VGA, the high four bits specify background and the low four the | ||
foreground. In both groups, low three bits set color (as in normal | ||
color codes used by the console) and the most significant one turns | ||
on highlight (or sometimes blinking -- it depends on the configuration | ||
of your VGA). | ||
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third parameter | ||
consists of character attribute bits you want to set. | ||
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The second parameter selects character attribute bits you want to change | ||
(by simply XORing them with the value of this parameter). On standard VGA, | ||
the high four bits specify background and the low four the foreground. In both | ||
groups, low three bits set color (as in normal color codes used by the console) | ||
and the most significant one turns on highlight (or sometimes blinking--it | ||
depends on the configuration of your VGA). | ||
Bit setting takes place before bit toggling, so you can simply clear a | ||
bit by including it in both the set mask and the toggle mask. | ||
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The third parameter consists of character attribute bits you want to set. | ||
Bit setting takes place before bit toggling, so you can simply clear a bit by | ||
including it in both the set mask and the toggle mask. | ||
.. [#f1] see ``#define TRIDENT_GLITCH`` in ``drivers/video/vgacon.c``. | ||
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Examples: | ||
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To get normal blinking underline, use: echo -e '\033[?2c' | ||
To get blinking block, use: echo -e '\033[?6c' | ||
To get red non-blinking block, use: echo -e '\033[?17;0;64c' | ||
To get normal blinking underline, use:: | ||
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echo -e '\033[?2c' | ||
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To get blinking block, use:: | ||
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echo -e '\033[?6c' | ||
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To get red non-blinking block, use:: | ||
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echo -e '\033[?17;0;64c' |