Virtual terminals in 386 IX

Source Admin src at scuzzy.uucp
Mon May 28 21:36:29 AEST 1990


>><ALT> [F1-F8]
>>as your virtual terminal hot keys.
>>Much better....

>Forget it. If you do that it's fine for normal working. But if you have
>X-Windows running on one virtual console and you switch to that screen
>you always get several garbage characters.

even worse, you'll lose transparency with prgms under vp/ix like word 4.0
which uses ALT-F?? keys a lot. also prgms like emacs are better to use if
you can assign functions to as many keys as possible.
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