On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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.
> > 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
With a reasonably recent installation of the kbd package on Linux, it'd be
simpler to ...
export CONTROLVT=`fgconsole`
Marc.
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