On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 09:24:21 +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 02:19:46PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > Ctrl+Alt+F1...F12 > > For systems with virtual terminal support, these keystroke > > combinations are used to switch to virtual terminals 1 > > through 12, respectively. This can be disabled with the > > DontVTSwitch xorg.conf(5) file option. > > I doubt that stops e.g. chvt(1) from working. I'm sure there are a > myriad other ways to switch VT from within the X session, too.
In an xterm (with or without using DontVTSwitch): brian@localhost:~$ chvt 4 Couldn't gat a file descriptor referring to the console Doubt no longer. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
