From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 9 13:44:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA11353 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 13:44:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from tok.qiv.com (root@[204.214.141.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA11271 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 13:44:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id PAA17327; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 15:30:39 -0600 Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA00680; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 14:36:04 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: acp.qiv.com: jdn owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 14:36:03 -0600 (CST) From: "Jay D. Nelson" To: "Thomas D. Dean" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: screen vs X11 In-Reply-To: <32FE237D.24A0@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ctl-Alt-Fn when in X gets you to a console. -- Jay On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Thomas D. Dean wrote: ->I believe that in 1.1.5, using X11R6, I could access the virtual ->screens with alt-F1...F6, corresponding to ttvy0 thru ttyv5. ->ttyv6 was "off: and ttyv7 was an xterm. From within X11, I could ->press alt-Fx and access that virtual screen. Pressing alt-F7 ->returned me to X11. -> ->Now, with 2.1.5, I cannot access the virtual consoles from within ->X11. I believe the setup is the same as before. If I do not start ->xdm, I can access the virtual consoles. But, pressing alt-F1 thru F3 ->produces nothing. Pressing alt-F4 thru alt-F6 produces a beep and. ->prints a 4~ thru 7~ on the screen. I note that 6~ is skipped, as ->ttyv6 is "off", so, alt-F6 produces 7~ and alt-F7 produces 8~. -> ->Is this possible in 2.1.5 or, more likely, What am I missing? ->