Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 18:44:41 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) Cc: obrien@antares.aero.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Switching to another console VT from X Message-ID: <199502280244.SAA16143@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Feb 1995 02:30:36 %2B0100." <9502280130.AA28781@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
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>>>>>> "Mike" == Mike O'Brien <obrien@antares.aero.org> writes: > > > 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? > >CTRL-ALT-F? > > > Mike O'Brien > >Jean-Marc > > ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ > Jean-Marc Zucconi | jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr > Observatoire de Besancon | > F 25010 Besancon cedex | PGP Key: finger jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr > ========================================================================= For some reason this doesn't work on my machine when I'm running XDM. Anyone have an idea why? -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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