Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 12:47:03 +1100 (DST) From: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au> To: "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@antares.aero.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Switching to another console VT from X Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950228124604.2737A-100000@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <95Feb27.164154pst.111131-1@aero.org>
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On Mon, 27 Feb 1995, Mike O'Brien wrote: > I spent an interesting afternoon configuring XFree86 for my unknown > monitor. Laborious but it came up with few problems. > > Except I'm curious about the integration of X with the console > virtual terminals. Once I'm in an X windows session there seems to be no > way to switch away from X to another console VT. X takes over the keyboard > processing and ALT-F? just puts an escape sequence into the X input queue. > > Is there any way to get to an alternate console from the middle of > an X session, or is that asking too much? > > Mike O'Brien > when running X use CTRL-ALT-F? to switch back to virtual consoles. ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================
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