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Date:      Tue, 28 Feb 95 02:30:36 +0100
From:      jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi)
To:        obrien@antares.aero.org
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Switching to another console VT from X
Message-ID:  <9502280130.AA28781@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
In-Reply-To: <95Feb27.164154pst.111131-1@aero.org> (obrien@antares.aero.org)

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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

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