Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:37:39 +0800 From: Igor Podlesny <poige@morning.ru> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: Gunnar Olsson <gunnar.olsson@xelerated.com>, "Freebsd Hackers (E-mail)" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re[2]: virtual consoles Message-ID: <1144619252.20010904113739@morning.ru> In-Reply-To: <20010903131504.I72833@ringworld.oblivion.bg> References: <31A473DBB655D21180850008C71E251A031AAFF1@mail.kebne.se> <20010903131504.I72833@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 12:04:45PM +0200, Gunnar Olsson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> To increase number of xterms I thought. >> only the option MAXCONS could be changed. >> But even though I change it from 16 to 32, >> I still only get 16. >> >> Someone there who can give me I quick answer? > I think this is the same issue that came up with a friend of mine > just today. > Actually, you do have 32 consoles; you just cannot switch to them > using the function keys. The Alt-Fx combinations are only defined > for 16 consoles (you have to use Alt-Shift-F[3-6] for the last four). > Extending this would plough straight into the key definitions for > the function keys themselves, which would be a Bad Thing (tm). > You still can get to the additional consoles by switching to ttyvf > (Alt-Shift-F6) and repeatedly pressing PrintScreen to get to > the next VC. > I realize that this is probably not much help, but it might be > a wise thing to step back and think if you really do need all > that many VC's; my friend's reply was 'I like to watch logs', > but this is easily done with screen(1) - ^A 0 to ^A 9 give you > 10 terminals per VC :) Screen is a nice thing, I agree. Just one drawback is (Ctrl-A)*N consoles (i.e., when you use screen at local console, than log in into another box and run screen there. Local screen will see catch Ctrl-A and you're forced to type it twice or even more times :) BTW, for LINUX there are such thing as TWIN (http://linuz.sns.it/~max/twin/). I belive it could be easy ported to FreeBSD (screen shots are http://linuz.sns.it/~max/twin/twin-screenshot.gif and http://www.linux.org.ru:8101/profile/_white/gallery/bigX8ZtRj.gif) > G'luck, > Peter -- Igor mailto:poige@morning.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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