I Now Have 85Lines

[Tyler Spivey]

If you want to get rid of the timestamps before all your irc messages in irssi, just type:
/set timestamps off

On 7/20/2011 12:45 AM, Hart Larry wrote:
> OK, 1 of our LUG members was here--and-after many chalenges, was able to increase my screen from 48 up to 85 lines.  Here's how he did it.
> Things accomplished:
>   Got monitor to display a ridiculous number of lines (85 tall), details to follow.
>   Installed irssi and attempted to configure it to be more friendly for Larry
> 
> With regard to monitor configuration:
>   Step 1: Alter LILO to boot graphics mode "6", which is 80x60
>   Step 2: Modify /etc/rcS.d/S23console-setup...
>     (Sorry, I know it's bad, I couldn't figure out a way to get it to stop being annoying) Right at the top I added an "exit", which prevented console-setup from breaking the video mode set in LILO.
>     A better solution that can be explored later would be figuring out how S23console-setup does what it does and altering the configuration to set the mode properly instead of needing to mess with bootloaders.
>    Step 3: Modify /etc/console-tools/config
>      Change the kernel font to: SCREEN_FONT=default8x9.psf
>      (The default is iso01, afaict
>    Step 4: Reboot!
> 
> With regard to irssi configuration:
>   I modified Larry's configuration to ignore join/parts and notices, also disabled the clock in the status bar.
> 
>   Things that could be improved:
>     Remove the timestamp before everything anyone says
>     Filter stupid people on IRC
> Back again live, my columns are still at 128, but now with these marvelous expanded view, I cannot really hear those frequencies as I speed up-and-down in review.
> Hopefully if any of you want a larger screen, Devon's work will help.
> Hart
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