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Software cursor for VGA
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by Pavel Machek <pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
and Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
TTY/Serial patches for 4.10-rc1 Here's the tty/serial patchset for 4.10-rc1. It's been a quiet kernel cycle for this subsystem, just a small number of changes. A few new serial drivers, and some cleanups to the old vgacon logic, and other minor serial driver changes as well. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iG0EABECAC0WIQT0tgzFv3jCIUoxPcsxR9QN2y37KQUCWFAwDQ8cZ3JlZ0Brcm9h aC5jb20ACgkQMUfUDdst+ylcngCgko5+aPLnHENLNIaHhHlfdMbhy+EAn2H8wkzY bEf+BG4CJDb6nZWERcUQ =STpQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'tty-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH: "Here's the tty/serial patchset for 4.10-rc1. It's been a quiet kernel cycle for this subsystem, just a small number of changes. A few new serial drivers, and some cleanups to the old vgacon logic, and other minor serial driver changes as well. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (54 commits) serial: 8250_mid fix calltrace when hotplug 8250 serial controller console: Move userspace I/O out of console_lock to fix lockdep warning tty: nozomi: avoid sprintf buffer overflow serial: 8250_pci: Detach low-level driver during PCI error recovery serial: core: don't check port twice in a row mxs-auart: count FIFO overrun errors serial: 8250_dw: Add support for IrDA SIR mode serial: 8250: Expose set_ldisc function serial: 8250: Add IrDA to UART capabilities serial: 8250_dma: power off device after TX is done serial: 8250_port: export serial8250_rpm_{get|put}_tx() serial: sunsu: Free memory when probe fails serial: sunhv: Free memory when remove() is called vt: fix Scroll Lock LED trigger name tty: typo in comments in drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c tty: amba-pl011: Add earlycon support for SBSA UART tty: nozomi: use permission-specific DEVICE_ATTR variants tty: serial: Make the STM32 serial port depend on it's arch serial: ifx6x60: Free memory when probe fails serial: ioc4_serial: Free memory when kzalloc fails during probe ...
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Linux now has some ability to manipulate cursor appearance. Normally,
you can set the size of hardware cursor. You can now play a few new
tricks: you can make your cursor look 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.
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.
first Parameter
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.
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).
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.
Examples
--------
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'