fischer@utower.gopas.sub.org (Axel Fischer) (05/25/90)
dean@truevision.com (Dean Riddlebarger) writes: >In article <40800011@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu> brando@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 -- fischer@utower.gopas.sub.org / fischer@db0tui6.BITNET / fischer@tmpmbx.UUCP That is not dead, which can eternal lie Yet with strange aeons, even death may die.
src@scuzzy.uucp (Source Admin) (05/28/90)
>><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. -- Heiko Blume blume@scuzzy.UUCP FAX (+49 30) 882 50 65 Kottbusser Damm 28 blume@netmbx.UUCP VOICE (+49 30) 691 88 93 D-1000 Berlin 61 TELEX 184174 intro d
tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) (05/29/90)
>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.... Best of all -- modify keybind so that a single easy-to-hit Alt key is mapped to VT_NEXT. Then you can flip around between VT screens with the greatest of ease. I hardly ever address them individually except when creating a new one.