From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 07:17:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA12239 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:17:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdev.blaze.net.au (sdev.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA12105 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (davidn@localhost) by sdev.blaze.net.au (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA00269; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 00:14:53 GMT Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 00:14:51 +0000 () From: David Nugent To: Jerry Dunham cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XF86 & fvwm Problem, Help? (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199609181345.IAA14647@freeside.fc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Jerry Dunham wrote: >> Well, you can. > >I remain unconvinced (mostly because I can't figure out how to do it). :-) >> Exactly what to press depends on how many vt >> consoles you have enabled (which is a kernel compile option - >> take a look at /sys/i386/conf/LINT for details). > >Never looked there before. Is it MAXCONS=16? Yep. >I thought I only had 12, >but I'm apparently wrong. I'd check, but I'm afraid if I get out of this >X session with I won't be able to get back. Use an xterm then. >> Now, the very first entry that describes an "off" tty, or if none >> are, the one right after the last one, THIS is where the (first) >> X server is actually running. > >It looks like that except for ttyvanything being off. Doesn't matter. X will use the next available one whether listed in /etc/ttys or not. >I'm beginning to wonder if this is what would be required for X >to work like you say it should. Nope. >> So, just like it was a normal tty, you press Alt-Fn (Alt-F5, in >> the above example), and back comes X. > >Nope. Doesn't happen. At least not that I can tell. Did you try? Yes, you have to get out of X. Just try all of the Alt-Fn keys. G'wan - be daring. :-) >This also looks to be worth experimenting with. Thanks for all the help >and suggestions. Sorry to be so dense. Someday this may all make sense. .. and then you'll come up with anothe prroblem you'll have to figure out. Isn't UNIX grand? :-) Good luck. David David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn