From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 27 17:49:44 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA26739 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 17:49:44 -0800 Received: from tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (cp_nairn@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au [131.217.10.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA26733 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 17:49:42 -0800 Received: (from cp_nairn@localhost) by tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA03348; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 12:47:04 +1100 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 12:47:03 +1100 (DST) From: Carey Nairn To: "Mike O'Brien" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Switching to another console VT from X In-Reply-To: <95Feb27.164154pst.111131-1@aero.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ! =========================================================================