Virtual terminals in 386 IX

Axel Fischer fischer at utower.gopas.sub.org
Fri May 25 07:54:34 AEST 1990


dean at truevision.com (Dean Riddlebarger) writes:
>In article <40800011 at uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu> brando at uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu writes:
>>Sure...
>>ISC Unix
>><ALT><SYS-REQ> [1-3,8]

>Or, if you latch onto a little program called keybind, you can alter
>your rc scripts to boot the console keyboard with:
><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.

-Axel
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