Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:14:54 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: now from way-out in left field Message-ID: <20061113171454.GA5806@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90611130850j342a937dmdde6d826258ca8fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90611130850j342a937dmdde6d826258ca8fb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:50:32AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > So I know you can open up 4 or more virtual desktops in X. And I know > you can open up any number of terminals. But I sort of like the nice > clean look and feel of a plain old vtty for many tasks. Unfortuately, > X, it would seem, steals all the F-keys, and the screen it would seem. > Is there any slight of hand I can do to switch between X on vtty1 and > my other enabled vtty's? I've also had KDE lock up solid (as I result > I'm evaluating gnome), and that would be a good method to fix things, > instead of the power switch, I would think. Obviously, I've marked > myself as a noob, and not to step on toes, but ctrl-alt-del on winNT's > generally does get one the task manager, unless you are bluescreened. > If I'm on a tty I feel reasonalby sure I can kill anything locked. > Unfortunately, the modern world needs X sometimes, lynx only goes so > far, but then I'm at X's mercy, follow me? Ok, I'll shut up now. > Have mercy on my opinions ;) > Unless you've done something with remapping the keyboard in X and you've done something to /etc/ttys, ctrl-alt-Fn where n = 1, ..., 12 should work. -- Steve
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