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This is the procedure I use for making a useful FreeBSD workstation
| Backspace Working Correctly |
I ALWAYS have problems getting the backspace key working correctly once I'm in X windows.
One way I combat the issue is by typing at my shell: "stty erase <ctrl-V><backspace>"
I used to be really into rxvt as my terminal emulator application, but I now use aterm instead.
rxvt was an easy and quick compile, really light on memory, and incredibly fast. However, I couldn't
ever reliably and easily get around the backspace/delete key issue. Running RXVT and connecting to
remote Linux or BSD servers, using or not using screen, and BitchX IRC brought out the worst in
trying to get the backspace key to work properly. Every situation was different and frustrating.
However, aterm solved all these issues. Its a longer compile from the ports tree, but it provides
nifty transparency eyecandy AND seems to resolve ALL my backspace key issues internally. No stty
changes, no .XModMap edits, nothing. Weee!
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| Flash (7) for Firefox |
Simple way to install the flash7 plugin, plays Youtube videos:
cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin7 ; make install clean
cd /usr/ports/www/nspluginwrapper ; make install clean
nspluginwrapper -i /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
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| Font for Terminal Within X Windows |
I demand from my terminal two things: Full ascii character support and it to be easy to read. There's no font
in XFree86 that provides that, so I instead havta provide my own font. Its a big font, so its easy to read, and
draws all the high-ascii characters I need when using BitchX or telnetting into ANSI BBS's. Here's how to
make it go:
(Red == Xorg previous to 7.2. Green == 7.2 and later)
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
cd /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc
fetch http://presence.irev.net/hacks/x11/default8x16.pcf.gz
mkfontscale
mkfontdir
xset fp rehash
aterm -fn default8x16 +rv -tr -trsb -sh 50 -fade 180 -sr -st -geometry 120x40
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| FreeBSD as a Windows Networking Client |
Update your kernel with the following lines:
options SMBFS #SMB/CIFS filesystem
options NETSMB #SMB/CIFS requester
options NETSMBCRYPTO #encrypted password support for SMB
options LIBMCHAIN #mbuf management library
options LIBICONV
You can find out more details by checking your LINT example config file. Once you have that jazz compiled in, whip out
this:
mount_smbfs //ntusername@ntserver/share /mnt/share
where ntusername is whatever your username is on the Windows NT,2000,
or XP ntserver is. The share is whatever's shared on that box. On your
FreeBSD workstation, make sure you have an empty directory set aside somewhere
to mount your NT share to, for example, /mnt/share
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| Pine IMAP/Exchange Email |
personal-name=My Name
user-domain=domain.com
inbox-path={192.168.0.10/user=ntdomain\ntusername\exchangealias}INBOX
customized-hdrs=From: "My Name" <my.email@domain.com>
rsh-open-timeout=0
feature-list=enable-incoming-folders
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| Pine IMAP/MailDir Email |
personal-name=My Name
user-domain=domain.com
customized-hdrs=From: "My Name" <my.email@domain.com>
inbox-path={localhost}inbox
incoming-folders=My Folder 1{localhost}inbox.MyFolder1,
My Folder 2{localhost}inbox.MyFolder2,
My Folder 3{localhost}inbox.MyFolder3
rsh-open-timeout=0
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