Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > Is there any way to have a system console under Gnome and OpenSolaris > 2008.11? > With the SXCE builds, you could use /usr/dt/bin/dtterm -C. But > OpenSolaris has eliminated all of the CDE stuff. And Gnome terminal > doesn't have a ''console'''option. Roundabout way would be to go in 'Failsafe terminal' session as root and disable gdm temporarily ( 'svcadm disable -t gdm') which will drop you into console and then doing 'svcadm enable gdm' once you are done. > > Also, does anyone know if this is something that will be added in the > future? The console is not popular with Linux or Windows, but very > useful for error messages. Take a look at the vconsole project [ http://opensolaris.org/os/project/vconsole ]. I've successfully used the Xorg binary, from inside the tarball in the downloads section on that page, with Osol2008.11 to get consoles with Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2...
HTH Hemantha > > Kostas > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
