On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > It's been a while since I proposed this: > > > > Le mar 05 aoû 2003 23:09:13 GMT, Samuel Thibault a tapoté sur son clavier : > > > We are currently developping X access to braille devices thanks to > > > gnopernicus connected to the standard text console reader brltty, > > > through BrlAPI. But for this to work (avoid conflicts with text console > > > reading), we need to know on which VT the X server is running.
> First working hack at > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.c.aitchison/VTprop.patch Which you could use with: CONTROLVT="$(xprop -root XFree86_VT|cut -d' ' -f3)" export CONTROLVT > > > Currently, there is no way to get this information from the server: X11 > > > protocol doesn't have any native request for this. Parsing the logfile > > > like this: > > > > > > CONTROLVT="$(grep "using VT number" "/var/log/XFree86.$(echo "$DISPLAY" | sed -e > > > "s/^.*::*\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/").log" | sed -e "s/^.*using VT number > > > \([0-9]*\).*$/\1/")" > > > export CONTROLVT > > > > > > in the .xinitrc/.xsession is quite reliable, but a bit hairy... Dave > > > proposed that it be recorded as a property, which is quite fine to my > > > mind. Could this be done before 4.3.0 ? David. I guess this is a new feature, so shouldn't go into 4.4 ? If you do wish to allow it, where do I document it in the release notes ? --- This patch puts the property onto the root window of each head in a non-Xinerama multi-head setup. -- Andrew C Aitchison _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
