Hey guys! I'm wondering if any of you know a nice programming and learn-how-to-use-linux site for me to explore, so far I don't get good sites, and linux.net or .org, whatever, just doesn't have the stuff I'm looking for. At the moment I need info on using the terminal in Linux when I'm writing a console app. I want to use the mouse, add some colors, etc. So if you know of a place with these, please tell me! I would really apreciate it! Any sites are welcome! Thanks!

The Linux Documentation Project has a lot of documentation :) If it has anything on what you're looking for, I'm not too sure.

Hm, no, I know there are some HOWTOs that deal with the framebuffer (which often includes using a mouse?) and others that deal with colors in the console, not sure which ones though. I'd guess one of the ones on Bash would have quite some information.

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This section is pretty interesting, they had more than I had expected.

You can try this one.

As for books, "Beginning Linux Programming" was the one I looked at first, although you may want to look up other books for more specific subjects like curses and X.

To use colors and such in the console you will need to learn the curses library.