On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:42:26AM +0200, Rafi Gordon wrote: > Hi, > On my fedora core 3 , running alt/ctrl/f2 changes to virtual console > number 2.(According to /etc/inittab, there are 6 virtual consoles). > > My question is : how is it done ? what is the chain of actions (or > maybe single action) which alt/ctrl/f2 initiates ? > > On the FC3 keyboard shortcuts dialog window, the combination alt/ctrl/fn (n > < 6) > does not appear at all. > > (It of course has to do to mingetty , which is what appears in > the /etc/inittab: > 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2. > > But again, my question is : what exactly is the action > which it triggers in order to switch to the virtual console?)
It's done by the X server directly, not by any client (such as KDE etc). Read 'man XFree86' and search for 'ctrl'. -- Didi ================================================================= 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]
