for disabling switching vt try chvt vtnumber & (eg: chvt 1 &)if ur x is running in tty1 in your script that should do the trick, i came with full install of redhat 7.2, try man chvt, or google is your friend
hope this helps, i have seen just too many people ask this question hth syed irfan crazycrusoe --- Andy Sparrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Christopher W. Allermann > wrote: > > > > > I'm stuck with a little bit of a problem here > and have been unable to find a > > > suitable solution. > > > > You might have to hack the server to do this. > There are already > > config file options to prevent Ctrl-Alt-backspace > and Ctrl-Alt-+/-, > > but there isn't one for Ctrl-Alt-F#. Maybe there > was a reason for > > that, I don't remember. This isn't the first time > somebody wanted > > to do this. > > Actually, someone asked me about this recently, and > I was surprised to > discover that it didn't exist too. It seems to me > that it should be a > standard option, as there's (at least) two cases > where it would be both valid > and useful: > > i) Your hardware won't switch cleanly back to text > mode from X[1] > > ii) You're setting up a kiosk-mode machine > > As you say, this also isn't the first time that > somebody wanted this, so > there's obviously a grass-roots requirement for it > :) > > I'm currently working on a patch for this, and I'd > appreciate some advice; I > believe that such an option (lets call it > 'DontSwitch') should disable VT > switching for all OSes that support that > functionality (including the ones > that use the VTSysreq method of doing it). > > As there's already a runtime switch to control this > (which already DTRT when > DRI has is in fullscreen mode), I also think the > neatest way to add this > functionality would be to add 'VTSwitchEnable' to > the tests for the rest of > the OSes that support VT switching, and set if from > the config file, if the > option is present. > > Any comments? > > Cheers, > > AS > > [1] Some Dell laptop users are stuck with this > apparently, a switch back to > text mode hoses you totally. Ick. > > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature ===== ===================================== CrazyCrusoe Hackerd00d http://members.linuxstart.com/openweb ===================================== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
