On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> Open will do it. Use "open -s -w program", it will switch to a VT, run the
> program, wait for it to finish, and switch back.
That's exactly what I was looking for!
Thanks Joey,
Brandon
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Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> It works as root. But I need a bit more than chvt, and I know I've seen a
> program/script that does it about a year or more ago. The "more" that I
> need is the ability to do this as a user, run a specified program, and
> switch back to X when the program is done. I wa
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 05:54:41PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> > > There is a little program called switchvt... I hardly remember, but I
> > > think
> > > it was just a single C file.
> >
> > That's about all I remember, too. (Although I was tryin
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 05:54:41PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> > There is a little program called switchvt... I hardly remember, but I think
> > it was just a single C file.
>
> That's about all I remember, too. (Although I was trying runvt, loadvt,
> launchvt.) Anyone have ideas on where
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Tino Schwarze wrote:
> > I want to start qwcl (quake world) from xqf (an X game finder). I
> > remember something that would change the current vt (via chvt maybe) and
> > then run your non-X program, followed by a change back to X. Does anyone
> > know of such a program/scr
Hi Brandon,
> I want to start qwcl (quake world) from xqf (an X game finder). I
> remember something that would change the current vt (via chvt maybe) and
> then run your non-X program, followed by a change back to X. Does anyone
> know of such a program/script?
There is a little program called s
I want to start qwcl (quake world) from xqf (an X game finder). I
remember something that would change the current vt (via chvt maybe) and
then run your non-X program, followed by a change back to X. Does anyone
know of such a program/script?
Thanks,
Brandon
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