From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 27 17:31:52 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA26142 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 17:31:52 -0800 Received: from cabri.obs-besancon.fr (cabri.obs-besancon.fr [193.52.184.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA26136 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 17:31:50 -0800 Received: by cabri.obs-besancon.fr (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA28781; Tue, 28 Feb 95 02:30:36 +0100 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 95 02:30:36 +0100 From: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) Message-Id: <9502280130.AA28781@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> To: obrien@antares.aero.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <95Feb27.164154pst.111131-1@aero.org> (obrien@antares.aero.org) Subject: Re: Switching to another console VT from X X-Mailer: Emacs Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Mike" == Mike O'Brien 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 =========================================================================