Thanks, Ralph. I guess I am anticipating problems that don't exist. Kenny's earlier comments made that clear too. When I connect to other systems, my own console continues to have the dimensions of my own machine rather than the foreign host. Chuck On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:11:28AM -0700, Ralph W. Reid wrote: > When some one logs into your system from a remote system, the screen > parameters will be defined by settings on their remote system--not by > the settings you have set up for the console(s) on your system. > Setting up your system to work with certain parameters to allow for a > specific number of rows and columns on the console screen sets those > parameters to work with the video card/controller installed in your > system. Remote systems which are used to log into your system are > likely to have different video cards/controllers, so the remote system > sets the operating parameters for displaying text or whatever. > Chances are that you will not have to make any adjustments on your > system--just have the person log in from the remote system via ssh (as > you described), and everything should work fine. > > HTH, and have a _great_ day! > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 07:46:48AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have never seen any references to this, but on the chance that someone > > has run across it, I would like to ask this: > > > > Is there a way to have different screen parameters (columns and lines) > > on a per user basis in Linux? I have become very attached to my enlarged > > screen, 132 by 60, but would like to allow access to a user account via > > ssh for someone who will not be comfortable with those dimensions. Is > > there any way to revert to an 80 by 25 screen just for that user, or for > > that session, without reverting to those figures for the whole system? > > > > Any ideas or opinions appreciated. Ideas preferred of course, but > > opinions welcome too. > > > > Chuck > > > > -- > > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (90% of Full) > > But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > > or you could Jabber me, using JID chuckh at hhs48.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. > rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid > ...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light! > SEC (x) / COSEC (x) = (TAN (x) / COTAN (x)) ^ 2 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (92% of Full) But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh or you could Jabber me, using JID chuckh at hhs48.com
