From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 3 20:37:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.morning.ru (ns.morning.ru [195.161.98.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7367537B406 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 20:37:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from NDNM ([195.161.98.250]) by ns.morning.ru (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f843bUY91612; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:37:30 +0800 (KRAST) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:37:39 +0800 From: Igor Podlesny X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.52 Beta/7) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Organization: Morning Network X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1144619252.20010904113739@morning.ru> To: Peter Pentchev Cc: Gunnar Olsson , "Freebsd Hackers (E-mail)" Subject: Re[2]: virtual consoles In-Reply-To: <20010903131504.I72833@ringworld.oblivion.bg> References: <31A473DBB655D21180850008C71E251A031AAFF1@mail.kebne.se> <20010903131504.I72833@ringworld.oblivion.bg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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