I’m not into the GUI on my beaglebone black, only multiuser run level 3. That is, I get a big black terminal on my HDMI display. OK, that’s what I want.
The problem was: the acendents of letters and the underscore ended up below the screen area, makes line editing difficult.
So, I installed fbset, a program to adjust the geometry of the frame buffer screen
pacman -S fbset
and run
fbset -s
got:
geometry 1280 720 1280 720 16
ran
fbset -g 1280 710 1280 710 16
which gave me a few pixels of margin at the bottom of the screen
Wrote a systemd file:
[Unit] Description=Initscript for hdmi [Service] Type=oneshot RemainAfterExit=no ExecStart=/usr/bin/fbset -g 1280 710 1280 710 16 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
and saved to
/etc/systemd/system/myhdmi.service
Tested by running
systemctl start myhdmi.service
And made to start automatically at boot:
systemctl enabl myhdmi.service
All this should probably be run as root or by sudo
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