Linux Terminal

Tricks
Change keyboard repeat rate to 30 chars/second - I added this to /etc/init.d/keymaps to get it to work automatically: Change beep frequency and length Change the current virtual terminal Change cursor in virtual terminal to yellow solid cursor Do the same in vim - change .vimrc: if &term == "linux" set t_ve+=^[[?152;9c endif Note that the ^[ above needs to be typed like this:  .
 * 1) kbdrate -r30
 * 1) setterm -bfreq 220 -blength 50
 * 1) chvt 2
 * 1) printf "\033[?152;9c"

Awesome Software
mplayer -quiet -vo aa someFile.ogm
 * cmatrix - Matrix-style screenblanker - use it with screen
 * screen - terminal multiplexer
 * twin - Textmode Windowing Environment
 * mplayer - mplayer:

Filter ANSI Color Control Codes from Input
decolorize.rb: while gets # \e escape # typical ANSI colour control sequences look like this: # ESC[0;33m #    # \ch CTRL+H (backspace) puts gsub(/\e\[\d(\d+)?m|\ch/,"") end Use like this: someprogram|decolorize.rb
 * 1) !/usr/bin/env ruby