Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:15:04 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Gunnar Olsson <gunnar.olsson@xelerated.com> Cc: "Freebsd Hackers (E-mail)" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: virtual consoles Message-ID: <20010903131504.I72833@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <31A473DBB655D21180850008C71E251A031AAFF1@mail.kebne.se>; from gunnar.olsson@xelerated.com on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 12:04:45PM %2B0200 References: <31A473DBB655D21180850008C71E251A031AAFF1@mail.kebne.se>
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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 :) G'luck, Peter -- .siht ekil ti gnidaer eb d'uoy ,werbeH ni erew ecnetnes siht fI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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