Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 25 May 1996 01:39:58 +0200 | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: TTY switching - SysReq rather than Alt please? |
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: Shawn Rutledge (ecloud@goodnet.com) wrote: :: > > It occurs to me that a better key binding for switching consoles :: > > would be Alt-SysReq Function-key so that the :: > > Alt function keys could be used by programs.
Lots of people answer, but nobody points out that one simple loadkeys command will achieve this.
Roeland Th. Jansen:
: use alt <###> where <333> is the number of the VC you want to switch to. The : <###> is on the numpad. for the event that you need to send raw keys, escape : first with alt <999> to switch VC switching off and atl <998> to switch it : back on or so. A few system calls to have it done from a program and all is : OK.
Even this strange construction is already possible today (exercise: how?) using loadkeys. Concerning system calls, in fact they are ioctls and also exist already. For an example, see the source of chvt.
Andries
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