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So many shells, but how come the virtual terminal hasn't got a revamp or popular alternative? I'd like to see more control over keybinding (e.g. on my machine p

So many shells, but how come the virtual terminal hasn't got a revamp or popular alternative? I'd like to see more control over keybinding (e.g. on my machine pressing ctrl+del sends the same character as pressing ctrl+backspace). I understand this would be more a kernel change than a userland one. Screen tiling and visual 'tabs' would also be welcome additions. Not everyone needs a graphic environment, and I refuse to install X just for better keyboard shortcuts on my terminal.

aidenn0 9y ago
dvtm does tiling and tabs Since dvtm also works as a terminal emulator, it seems to me that you could use loadkeys to setup various keycodes to send the proper vt100 escape codes. I've not tried it, but see no reason why it shouldn't work. If you just want "No X install" you can use a frame buffer terminal (fbterm was one I used to use, but it doesn't appear to have been updated in a while, perhaps there is a spiritual successor, or maybe it already does what you want) [edit] YAFT https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft looks like it's more up to date than fbterm.
JdeBP 9y ago
It has, a fair number of times. * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/177209/5132 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/177209/5132 * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/196102/5132 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/196102/5132