On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 01:26:27PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about "Re: Frighting possibilities > (gnome-2.4 + fedora oddity)": > > > It all started because of Ilya. > > > I tried to get the notification thingy running and could not see the > > > mail notification icon - > > > Naturally I CTRL-ALT-F1'nd to see what X warning if any exist and a > > > slight sense of panic rose in me as I started keying in hysterically > > > CTRL-ALT-F1 to F12. > >.. > > > > Can you try 'chvt 1'? > > I have the same problem on my Redhat 9 - CTRL-ALT-F1 et al. stopped working, > and I have no idea why. "switchto 1" does work (I didn't check "chvt", I > assume it does the same thing).
Me too (tm), although they are from different packages and have different man pages. Haven't looked at the sources. BTW, I have a (mostly unrelated) question: Sometimes shutdown writes its messages to a VT different than the "active" one. Is there a simple way to know where it's running and chvt there in the beginning of shutdown? The relevant manpage (as far as I could find) is console_ioctl(4), but I couldn't find there _exactly_ what I want, that is - to find out what the active one is. I saw VT_GETSTATE, but it somehow didn't work for me - I don't remember exactly, but it didn't. If anyone knows, speak up. If anyone's interested, also speak up, and I will try again to see what was the problem. I think there are two different things: The one who gets output to /dev/console (or /dev/tty0?), and the one that you actually see on the console. IIRC, the first is the "active", and the second isn't mentioned there. I might not RC, though. -- Didi > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Monday, Dec 29 2003, 4 Tevet 5764 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone: +972-53-790466, ICQ 13349191 |The trouble with being punctual is that > http://nadav.harel.org.il |nobody is there to appreciate it. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
