Konsole For Oz, Alternatives to opie-console... Options

[conn-fused]

Hi all,

I'm looking for an alternative to opie-console that can handle special characters like the Euro symbol.

I have heard that you can type this symbol (€) with Fn, Shft+4 but that doesn't work on my (US) SL-5500 running OZ 3.5.3 (with the new kernel ... r21?). Nor does Fn, Shft+3 work for the British pound symbol.

I can enter a pound symbol from the handwriting screen (although the Euro symbol doesn't seem to be available ... nor is Yen), but opie-console just displays it as a box.

So, what other consoles (eg konsole) are available, where can I find them, and how can I enter more currency characters?

Thanks.

[YoG]

just a thought, did you try changing the font in the opie-console? maybe download a new font from the feed?
BTW I tried fn+shift+4 and it locked the keyboard until I rebooted... had anybody that before?

[Mickeyl]

There's always opie-embeddedkonsole as an alternative.

[conn-fused]

Thanks for the ideas guys.

I've tried changing the fonts without success, although I've yet to download new fonts. I will try that soon and report my success. But first:

I tried opie-embeddedconsole. It doesn't fix this problem but it's a perfectly acceptable console <i> except that </i> installing it seems to have broken opie-console. Basically, opie-console's window now extends beneath the opie taskbar, so once I've filled the page with text, I loose sight of the last line (normally the command prompt). If anyone reading this thread has seen this before, I'd appreciate suggestions.

[YoG]

Basically, opie-console's window now extends beneath the opie taskbar

I've encounterd that when I enabled the text wrapping option... once disabled everything returned to normal...

Yog.

[conn-fused]

You're right that the line-wrap option is involved. If I disable line-wrap opie-console stays in its window, but - as you'd expect - long commands are more difficult this way.

Building on what you suggested I found that if I disable line-wrap, rotate the screen (from the Opie Menu), rotate it back, and the enable line-wrap, I get the best of both worlds (line-wrap & a proper window). But it is a nuisance having to do that when, before, it "just worked". Still, thanks for the work-around.

Edit: Turns out you can just rotate the display and rotate it back, without disabling and re-enabling line-wrap. It's as if the window's dimensions are set incorrectly the first time, but not subsequently.

[lardman]

You might find the other terminal app tries writing its settings to the same file. Although you've got it fixed now, I'd do an 'ls -a ~/' and see if you can work out which is the file in question.


Si

[conn-fused]

You might find the other terminal app tries writing its settings to the same file. Although you've got it fixed now, I'd do an 'ls -a ~/' and see if you can work out which is the file in question.


Si

The file you're thinking of is probably ~/Settings/opie-console-profiles.conf. That was the only file revealed by "find ~ -name *kons*" and "find ~ -name *cons*". It reads as follows:

[default]
Color = 1
Command = /bin/sh
Echo = 1
EnvVars = 0
Font = fixed
FontCharset = iso10646-1
FontSize = 7
FontStyle = Regular
Inbound = 1
Outbound = 1
Terminal = 3
Wrap = 1
autoConnect = 1
back = 0
fore = 3
ioplayer = console
key_cols = 10
keb_r0c0 = Enter|enter|4101|0
keb_r0c1 = Space|space32|32
keb_r0c10 = Pd||4119|0
keb_r0c11 = Esc||4096|4095
keb_r0c2 = Tab|tab|4097|0
keb_r0c3 = Up|ip|4115|0
keb_r0c4 = Down|down|4117|0
keb_r0c5 = ||0|0
keb_r0c7 = Ho||4112|0
keb_r0c8 = End||4113|0
keb_r0c9 = Pu||4118|0
keb_r1c0 = F1||4144|0
keb_r1c1 = F2||4145|0
keb_r1c2 = F3||4146|0
keb_r1c3 = F4||4147|0
keb_r1c4 = F5||4148|0
keb_r1c5 = F6||4149|0
keb_r1c6 = F7||4150|0
keb_r1c7 = F8||4151|0
keb_r1c8 = F9||4152|0
keb_r1c9 = F10||4153|0
keb_rows = 2
name = default
term = default
terminal = 0

Now, does anyone have that file from a clean installation of opie-console so I can do a diff? Thanks.

[conn-fused]

It would seem that rebooting the Zaurus (a couple times?) rectifies this problem.