[techtalk] window manager preference?

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:52:51AM -0800 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
psyche thought:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 18 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote:
> 
> > now, the point of these ramblings...  Can I set the console to 128x50 or
> > something like that?  Had a look at stty but couldn't find anything
> > helpful there.
> 
> I just managed to do it with 'stty cols 128 rows 50'.  Of course it was
> near-unreadable on my small monitor, but hopefully that will work for
> you. :)  
> 
> psyche

Tried that... 
nothing changed...
until I did a 'man stty' and the first 25 lines shot off the top of the
screen!

It changed something alright but not the actual screen mode.

Conor
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