From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 19:11:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zaphod.wox.org (CPE0050bae86969.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [24.112.22.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C74837B417 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 19:11:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (rglidden@localhost) by zaphod.wox.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1J3BbR66178; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:11:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from richard@glidden.org) X-Authentication-Warning: charon.acheron.localnet: rglidden owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:11:36 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Glidden X-X-Sender: rglidden@charon.acheron.localnet To: stan Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Programicly changing virtual terminals? In-Reply-To: <20020218143718.GA15264@teddy.fas.com> Message-ID: <20020218220616.Y66128-100000@charon.acheron.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, stan wrote: > In linux there is a command (chvt if memory serves corectly) which changes > which virtual terminal is display on the console screen. > > How can I do this in FreeBSD? vidcontrol -s # Where # is the number of the vty. It has the same effect as pressing the ALT-Fn key for the terminal. vidcontrol has a bunch of other options that may be of use as well, such as changing the size/font of the consoles, etc. "man vidcontrol" for more info. - Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message