Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 01:06:00 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Scott Myron <zamy27@hsonline.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ok, i've almost got it.. Message-ID: <19980430010600.B3631@mph124.rh.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980429153020.13203o-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 03:31:26PM -0700 References: <35438639.C7DA6CCB@hsonline.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980429153020.13203o-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 03:31:26PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> There is a way of hopping between consoles in software using vidcontrol.
> Then it's a matter of hopping to each term and running the command.
Since vidcontrol acts on the terminal that is stdin or stdout (I
never bothered to figure out whcih it was, or both), you do not
need to literally switch vt's. You can just supply all of your
vty's as stdin and stdout in turn:
echo -n 'activating console mouse:'
for i in /dev/ttyv[0-3]; do
echo -n " $i"
vidcontrol -m on < $i > $i
done
echo
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