From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 22:06:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA04080 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 22:06:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mph124.rh.psu.edu (mph@MPH124.rh.psu.edu [128.118.126.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA04065 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 22:06:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@mph124.rh.psu.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by mph124.rh.psu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA04407; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 01:06:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mph) Message-ID: <19980430010600.B3631@mph124.rh.psu.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 01:06:00 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: Doug White , Scott Myron Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: ok, i've almost got it.. Mail-Followup-To: Doug White , Scott Myron , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" References: <35438639.C7DA6CCB@hsonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 03:31:26PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 03:31:26PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > There is a way of hopping between consoles in software using vidcontrol. > Then it's a matter of hopping to each term and running the command. Since vidcontrol acts on the terminal that is stdin or stdout (I never bothered to figure out whcih it was, or both), you do not need to literally switch vt's. You can just supply all of your vty's as stdin and stdout in turn: echo -n 'activating console mouse:' for i in /dev/ttyv[0-3]; do echo -n " $i" vidcontrol -m on < $i > $i done echo -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://mph124.rh.psu.edu/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message